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Voice Application Development with VoiceXML
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Voice Application Development with VoiceXML

by Rick Beasley, Kenneth Michael Farley, John O'Reilly, Leon Henry Squire
August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 36m
English
Sams
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Chapter 11. ECMAScript in VoiceXML

IN THIS CHAPTER

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Variable Types

User-Defined Objects

Built-in Objects

Operators

Type Conversion

Controlling Program Execution

Summary

ECMAScript is a client-side scripting language supported by the VoiceXML language. ECMAScript is based on JavaScript 1.1. You have already seen examples of ECMAScript code in the bookstore application in variable declarations, expr attributes, and script elements.

Variables in VoiceXML are typed according to the ECMAScript specification. When used within an expr attribute, ECMAScript provides a mechanism for evaluating operations on variables of various types. When used within a script element, ECMAScript provides programmers with traditional programming ...

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