Motorola 1 manual Input Element Type Time, Data Format

VoxML 1.0 Element Reference

INPUT Element : Type TIME

INPUT Element : Type TIME

The TIME input type is used to collect a time of day from the user.

Syntax

<INPUT TYPE="TIME" NAME="value" NEXT="value" [NEXTMETHOD="value"] [TIMEOUT="value"] />

Attributes

Attribute Name	Allowed Values
NAME	identifier
NEXT	next step URL
NEXTMETHOD	GET *
	POST
TIMEOUT	milliseconds (integer)

Examples

1 <STEP NAME="init">

2<PROMPT> What time would you like your wakeup

3call? </PROMPT>

4<INPUT TYPE="time" NAME="wakeup" NEXT="#record"/>

6</STEP>

This example makes use of the TIME input type to collect a time of day from the user, store that data in the VoxML variable named “wakeup”, and then go to the STEP named “record”.

Data Format

The TIME input makes use of an input grammar to interpret the user’s response and store that response in a standard format. This grammar will interpret responses of various forms, including both 12-hour and 24-hour conventions.

“Four o’clock” is stored as “400”. Since the user was not specific as to the morning or evening, no indication is stored in the VoxML variable.

“Four oh three PM” becomes “403P”. Note the “P” appended to the time. Likewise, “Ten fifteen in the morning” becomes “1015A”. Note the “A”. “Noon” is stored as “1200P”, and “Midnight” is stored as “1200A”. Military time, such as, “Thirteen hundred hours” becomes “100P”.

October 1998 VoxML 1.0 Language Reference 33