Comments in .grxml Grammar Files

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The System.Speech supports grammar files that conform to the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) Version 1.0. It is an accepted convention to use the .grxml file extension for XML-based grammar documents that conform to the SRGS specification.

Comments in .grxml grammar files are enclosed between the string sequences <!-- and -->.

Syntax

<!-- Grammar_rule_description -->

Attributes

None.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<grammar xml:lang="en-US" root="BlueGreen" tag-format="semantics/1.0" version="1.0" 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar">

<!-- This rule recognizes the color names "blue", "indigo", "azure", "green", --> 
<!-- "teal", and "emerald", and returns the text of the recognized color and --> 
<!-- a semantic value. -->

  <rule id="BlueGreen" scope="public">
    <item>  
      <one-of>
        <item> <ruleref uri="#Blue"/> <tag> out.color=rules.Blue; </tag> </item>
        <item> <ruleref uri="#Green"/> <tag> out.color=rules.Green; </tag> </item>
      </one-of>
    </item>
  </rule>

  <rule id="Blue" scope="public">
    <tag> out="blue"; </tag>
    <one-of>
      <item> blue </item>
      <item> indigo </item>
      <item> azure </item>
    </one-of> 
  </rule>   

  <rule id="Green" scope="public">
    <tag> out="green"; </tag>
    <one-of>
      <item> green </item>
      <item> teal </item>
      <item> emerald </item>
    </one-of> 
  </rule>

</grammar>