2.5. Form items
VoiceXML defines a "form item" as an element that is a child of form and is of one of the following element types:
field,
block,
initial,
subdialog,
object,
record,
transfer.
Up until now, we've only discussed the first of these - the field element type. We have also seen form-level filled elements, but these are not considered "form items." A form item has a very particular meaning with respect to the Form Interpretation Algorithm.
Every form item has the following:
result variable
This is an ECMAScript variable whose name is defined by the form item's name attribute, and whose scope is that of the containing dialog. When a form item has been successfully visited, its result variable will contain the result of that visitation. For ...
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