[Freddy]

How does AIML now deal with the idea of 'it' ?

On this old page about half way down is this tag :

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<set_it></set_it>

http://www.alicebot.org/documentation/aiml-reference.html

The page says it is deprecated. So I was wondering if there was something to replace it ?

I'm thinking you could just do this :

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<set name="it">whatever</set>

And then 'get' to recover.

Thanks

[squarebear]

You are correct. You should use <set name="it">. "It" is a special tag in that you can do something like:

Tell me more about <set name="it">your job</set>

and the output will read:

Tell me more about it.

[Freddy]

Thanks Mr SquareBear 

[Freddy]

Squarebear,

I'm thinking about some custom tags. You know how <that> works, well would something similar for <it> be useful do you think ?

For example, continuing with your example :

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	<category> 
		<pattern>I FIND IT BORING</pattern> 
		<it>YOUR JOB</it> 
		<template>That's too bad. Maybe you should get a new one.</template> 
	</category>	

I thought this might be useful because THAT would just be 'TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT.'

Or do you think <topic> is sufficient/better for some reason ?

[squarebear]

I wouldn't bother as you can already do that with conditions.

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<category> 
	<pattern>I FIND IT BORING</pattern> 
		<template>
			<condition name="it">
				<li value="YOUR JOB">That's too bad. Maybe you should get a new one.</li>
				<li value="SCHOOL">But school helps you to get an education.</li>
				<li value="LIFE">Why not get a new hobby to liven things up?</li>
				<li value="YOU">You're not exactly a barrel of laughs yourself.</li>
				<li>How would you make it more exciting?</li>
			</condition>
		</template> 
</category>

[Freddy]

That's clever Steve, thanks, I'll go with that