[alicebot-general] Updating the AIML spec?

[mehri]

One note of clarificaton:

> 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.

When I say terse, I mean terse in that all compact to
the point specifications are always terse by nature. 
The 1.0.1 specification is a very well written and
thought out specification and I am very thankful of
it. 

However, annotated specifications with working samples
are less terse in my humble opinion.



--- mehri <foreverlinux at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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