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log element

Writes a message to the debug log. When you use Tellme Studio to execute your VoiceXML applications, you can use the Debug Log Viewer to view these messages.

Syntax

<log 
label = "string"
labelexpr = "ECMAScript_Expression"
/>

Attributes

label

A string that may be used to categorize the log message.

labelexpr

An ECMAScript expression that evaluates to the string used to categorize the log message. This attribute is a Tellme extension.

Parents

block, catch, error, filled, foreach, help, if, noinput, nomatch, prompt

Children

value

Remarks

The label and labelexpr attributes are mutually exclusive.

To write to the Log within a script element, use the vxmllog function. The vxmllog function does not currently support the ability to specify a label.

A single log message is limited to 1000 characters. A longer message will be truncated.

Examples

The following example writes some simple text to the log.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.1"
 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml">
<form>
   <block>
      <log>Hello, world.</log>
   </block>
</form>
</vxml>

The following example writes the contents of a variable to the log.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.1"
 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml">
<form>
   <var name="uid" expr="12345"/>
   <block>
      <log><value expr="uid"/></log>
   </block>
</form>
</vxml>

The following example writes simple text and the contents of a variable to the log.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.1"
 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml">
<form>
   <var name="uid" expr="12345"/>
   <block>
      <log>uid is <value expr="uid"/></log>
   </block>
</form>
</vxml>