[alicebot-general] Javascript

[Noel Bush]

The javascript you are allowed to use in the <javascript> element is
server-side javascript.  So there is no document object to which you can
write (unless you create one).  Here is the javascript test case from
dev-testcases.aiml.  It should produce "Test passed.":

            <javascript>
                var last = " passed.";
                var first = "Test";
                first + last;
            </javascript>

Scripts in the dev-scripts.aiml may not work because some of them fail
to terminate all lines with semicolons, and/or because the 4.1.4 parser
deals poorly with single-line comments.

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 21:11, Daniel Ball wrote:
> First, I edited the server.properties file so that the javascript element is 
> allowed.
> 
> So I tried a very simiple javascript just to test whether it was working.  
> For example,
> 
> <javascript>
> document.write("This is a test to see if javascript is working")
> </javascript>
> 
> But nothing happens.  So I looked in my interpreter log and saw this error 
> message: "Javascript returned null!"
> 
> I noticed that when I try to trigger the same scripts that Jon Baer wrote in 
> the 'dev-scripts.aiml' file, these don't work either.  They cause the same 
> "returned null" message as before.
> 
> Is there anyone who can explain this, and/or explain how I can use 
> javascript in my aiml?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
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