[pandorabots-general] General Tag Question.

[Dekadens]

Greetings.

Can anybody please instruct me as to the propper use of the <topic
name="whatever"> tag?

What I'm trying to do is to be able to have my bot generate an output
from a "specific" AMIL file, not necessarily because I have duplicate
"template" or "that" tags, but only because I want the output to come
from an AIML file of my choice.

For example, let's say that the client mentions something about
"banannas". I might have some random categories scattered throughout
ALL my AIML files that COULD generate a good reply,   but say I have
an AIML file called "fruit salad" and I want the bot to select a match
from categories in THAT specific file only.

Is the "topic" tags the only way to do this or is there another way?

Thanks for your help.

Joe