[alicebot-general] Setting predicates to value of a variable

[Noel Bush]

You should be able to do this:

<set name="name"><javascript>visitor</javascript></set>

Noel

Alan Haymes wrote:
> Is there any way that I can set a predicate to the value of variable within a
> javascript statement?  I am experimenting with cookies so that I can welcome
> back visitors by name in response to them saying "hi".  
> 
> I am able to set the cookie (set_cookie ("visitor")) when they tell me their
> name by assigning their name to a variable within javascript (e.g. var
> visitor = "<star/>" where say * = Fred) but although I can retrieve their
> name back into another variable (e.g. var visitor = get_cookie ( "visitor"
> )) I can not see how to get the value of "visitor" (Fred) back into
> predicate "name" - any syntax I've tried e.g. <set
> name="name"><visitor/></set> fails.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
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