[alicebot-general] Updating the AIML spec?

[mehri]

Is it true that the AIML spec's been a "draft" for
over half a decade now (2001 was the last revision)?

I'm looking at:
http://www.alicebot.org/TR/2001/WD-aiml/

Would it be possible to open up that draft in a wiki
fashion somewhere so it could finished by volunteers?

Then take that 1.0.1 page and redirect it to the wiki?

Also that wiki could be used to put in several
illustrative examples and AIML techniques for each tag
by some of us volunteers.

It's frustrating when someone asks me for help with
AIML in the Annotated Alice set that my interpreter
doesn't handle and I find some new attribute or xml
element isn't part of the 1.0.1 specification but is
in Annotated Alice.

Likewise, good clear examples are lacking and I would
like to add them.

It's also frustrating when people ask me where to
learn AIML and I have to point them to a terse and
incomplete specification with no examples.

This core deficiency is hindering the acceptance of
AIML and making it difficult for bot and interpreter
writers around the world.





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