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What are the requirements for a legal VoiceXML document?

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:54 pm
by support
A legal VoiceXML document must To be valid, the document must have (at a minimum)
  • - an XML prolog
    - a <vxml> root element (with "version" and "xmlns" attributes)
    - at least one <vxml> child element (e.g. <form>, <menu>)
What follows is (more or less) the shortest VoiceXML document that does anything "interesting":

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Latin1"?>
<!DOCTYPE vxml PUBLIC "-//The Plum Group//Voice Markup Language 2.0//EN" "http://vxml.plumgroup.com/vxml-240.dtd">
<vxml version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml">
  <form>
    <block>
      Hello, world!
    </block>
  </form>
</vxml>
Note that the PlumVP does not actually require that documents have a DOCTYPE declaration. All documents run under the PlumVP are validated against the platform's DTD regardless of any DOCTYPE declaration your document may (or may not) have.