Minimal Watson Dialog template for testing capturing user input.

watson-dialog-capture-test.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<dialog xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="WatsonDialogDocument_1.0.xsd"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<flow><folder label="Main">
  <output id="start">
    <prompt>
      <item>Hi. Enter anything and I’ll capture it.</item>
    </prompt>

    <getUserInput>
      <input>
        <grammar>
          <item>$ (CAPTURE_DATA)={raw_captured}</item>
        </grammar>

        <action varName="captured" operator="SET_TO">{raw_captured.source}</action>
        <action varName="raw" operator="SET_TO_USER_INPUT" />

        <output>
          <prompt>
            <item>OK.</item>
          </prompt>
          <goto ref="start" />
        </output>
      </input>
    </getUserInput>
  </output>
</folder></flow>

<entities>
  <entity name="CAPTURE_DATA">
    <value><grammar><item>*</item></grammar></value>
  </entity>
</entities>

<variables>
  <var_folder name="Home">
    <var name="raw_captured" type="TEXT" />
    <var name="captured" type="TEXT" />
    <var name="raw" type="TEXT" />
  </var_folder>
</variables>

</dialog>