[alicebot-style] alicebot-style Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2

[Noel Bush]

Try "FOO *".  The AIML spec says that topic names are supposed to be
AIML patterns, which are supposed to contain only uppercase characters,
* and _.  Validating your AIML against the schema should point this out.

tom.su wrote:
> to Anne Kootstra
> i have tried  
> <topic name="foo *">
>       <category>
>         <pattern>MANY THINGS</pattern>
>         <template>FOO</template>
>       </category>
>   </topic>
> in programd4.6 ,and got error:cvc-pattern-valid: Value 'foo *' is not facet-valid.
> it seems that we can not add wildcard in topic.
> 
> to Chris Fellows
> the advantage of aiml in my opinion is the common advantage of aiml,nothing special.
> With thousand of  QAs in the knowledge base,a bot can cover most of usual chat.AIML
> provides a good way to organize QAs as well as providing some fuzzy match and other
> utilities using "that","topic",wildcard etc.Generally say, i think the key to aiml is in which way
> you orgnize your categories to make you easy to manipulate and reduce redundancy.
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