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Subject: RE: RDC: grammar tags in the state component
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:06:35 -0000
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Thread-Topic: RDC: grammar tags in the state component
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From: "Mitch Warner" <mitch.warner@fluencyvoice.com>
To: "Tag Libraries Developers List" <taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org>

We=20have=20tried=20just=20allowing=20developers=20the=20ability=20to=20de=
fine=20phrase
lists=20in=20the=20past.=20Out=20experience=20is=20that=20this=20works=20O=
K=20for=20very=20simple
applications;=20however=20when=20you=20get=20into=20more=20advanced=20syst=
ems,=20this=20was
deemed=20insufficient.=20For=20example=20it=20does=20not=20allow=20the=20d=
eveloper=20to=20use
any=20of=20the=20following:

--=20optional=20phrases
--=20garbage=20word=20handling
--=20repetition

Based=20on=20our=20experience,=20I=20would=20strongly=20urge=20you=20to=20=
consider=20allowing
the=20developer=20to=20define=20their=20own=20grammar=20file=20for=20the=20=
initial=20grammar.=20

-----Original=20Message-----
From:=20Rahul=20P=20Akolkar=20[mailto:akolkar@us.ibm.com]=20
Sent:=2024=20February=202005=2014:42
To:=20taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject:=20RE:=20RDC:=20grammar=20tags=20in=20the=20state=20component

Let=20me=20summarize=20this=20thread=20so=20far=20to=20see=20what=20the=20=
loose=20ends=20are,=20so
we=20can=20close=20on=20this.

As=20the=20last=20couple=20of=20emails=20mention,=20the=20initial=20value=20=
can=20be=20used=20to
augment=20a=20generic=20RDC=20to=20provide=20a=20personalized=20VUI,=20for=
=20example,=20one
may
say:

<rdc:usState=20=20id=3D"homeState"=20=20initial=3D"${userBean.homeState}"=20=

initialGrammar=3D"my=20home=20state,the=20state=20where=20I=20live"=20/>

--or--

<rdc:percent=20=20id=3D"downPayment"=20
minPercent=3D"${userBean.mortgageType.minimumDP}"=20
initial=3D"${userBean.mortgageType.minimumDP}"=20=20initialGrammar=3D"mini=
mum
down=20payment"=20/>

Loose=20ends:
1)=20It=20seems=20sufficient=20to=20allow=20the=20JSP=20author=20to=20spec=
ify=20the=20utterances
for=20the=20initial=20grammar.=20This=20may=20be=20done=20as=20above,=20ha=
ving=20an=20attribute
that=20takes=20either=20a=20delimited=20(comma,=20in=20above=20examples)=20=
string=20or=20a
collection=20of=20strings.=20Indeed,=20this=20is=20true=20because=20the=20=
semantic
interpretation=20of=20all=20these=20utterances=20from=20the=20component's=20=
perspective
is=20identical,=20and=20hence=20will=20be=20best=20autogen'ed.
2)=20What=20should=20this=20tag=20attribute=20be=20called?=20I=20used=20in=
itialGrammar=20above
for=20illustration,=20what=20attribute=20name=20makes=20most=20sense?=20Su=
ggestions?

This=20issue=20is=20orthogonal=20to=20i18n,=20and=20maybe=20my=20earlier=20=
email=20didn't
clarify=20I=20thought=20that=20way.=20We=20will=20be=20going=20ahead=20wit=
h=20i18n=20in
parallel,=20since=20we=20have=20a=20couple=20of=20good=20volunteers=20for=20=
translation,=20and
we=20will=20need=20to=20do=20i18n=20for=20the=20RDC=20taglib=20anyway.

-Rahul

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