Definitive VoiceXML™

3.1. assign

Element type	assign
Attributes	expr | name
Parents	block | catch | error | filled | help | if | noinput | nomatch
Children	None.
Description	Assigns a value to a variable. The variable must have already been declared with a var element or with ECMAScript code, or else this will cause a semantic.error to be thrown.

DTD

<!ELEMENT assign EMPTY >
<!ATTLIST assign
  name %field.name; #REQUIRED
  expr %expression; #REQUIRED >

Language model

Attributes

The two attributes of assign represent a key/value pair.

name : field.name

Indicates the name of the ECMAScript variable to be altered.

expr : expression

An ECMAScript expression whose value will be assigned ...