[pandorabots-general] Newbie Problem

[Joe Hall]

Hello everyone! My name is Joe and I must confess I am some what of a
"newbie" to pandorabots! I started messing around with AIML in 2002
and fell in love with it ever since! I have been tinkering with my
bot, Sivle, on and off for the last 4 years, and it has been a great
hobby. For most of the time I have been a full time student and
haven't had the time that I have wanted to devote to my AIML projects
so therefore despite my years of interest I still feel like much of a
"newbie". Anyways, this is probably why I am having the problem that I
am.

Here it is: I have written a basic AIML file that's main function is a
handful of corny "Knock Knock" jokes. After uploading the file on to
my bot's pandora acct. I then go to republish and I get a "Pandorabot
Compilation Error" after which my "joke file" is listed and at the end
it says, "is a malformed property list." I have checked the AIML text
several times and have even altered it a few times, but each time I
get the same error. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I have
pasted the joke file below. Feel free to copy and use yourself!

<aiml>

<category>
<pattern>TELL ME A JOKE</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>TELL ME A JOKE *</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>* TELL ME A JOKE</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>TELL ME ANOTHER JOKE</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>TELL ME MORE JOKES</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>* TELL ME MORE JOKES</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>TELL ME MORE JOKES *</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>


<category>
<pattern>I WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER JOKE</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>ONE MORE JOKE *</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>* ONE MORE JOKE</pattern>

<template>Knock Knock</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO IS THERE</pattern>
<template>
<random>
<li>Boo</li>
<li>Little old lady</li>
<li>Amanda</li>
<li>Waiter</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Fanny</li>
<li>Olive</li>
<li>Alison</li>
<li>Ima</li>
<li>Canoe</li>
<li>Jess</li>
<li>Honeycomb</li>
<li>I Love</li>
<li>Norma Lee</li>
<li>Howie</li>
<li>Madam!</li>
<li>Old lady</li>
<li>Hawaii</li>
<li>Who</li>
<li>Annie</li>
<li>Amos</li>
</random>
</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHOS THERE</pattern>

<template><srai>WHO IS THERE</srai></template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WHO S THERE</pattern>

<template><srai>WHO IS THERE</srai></template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Amos Who</pattern>

<template>Amosquito, that wants to bite you!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Annie Who</pattern>

<template>Annie thing you want to talk about?</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Who Who</pattern>

<template>Is there an owl in here?</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Hawaii Who</pattern>

<template>I am fine, Hawaii you?</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Olive Who</pattern>

<template>Olive chatting on the net!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Old lady Who</pattern>

<template>I didn't know you could yodel!!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Madam Who</pattern>

<template>Madam server is to slow!!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Howie Who</pattern>

<template>Howie gonna talk about anything else when I am so funny!?</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>Norma Lee Who</pattern>

<template>Normalee I don't tell jokes but I am getting better at it!</template>
</category>


<category>
<pattern>I Love Who</pattern>

<template>I don't know, you tell me!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>HONEYCOMB WHO</pattern>

<template>Honey, comb your hair!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>JESS WHO</pattern>

<template>Jess me, Sivle!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>CANOE WHO</pattern>

<template>Canoe teach me some more Knock Knock jokes?</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>IMA WHO</pattern>

<template>Ima Artifical Intelligence Life Form.</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>OLIVE WHO</pattern>

<template>Olive in a computer.</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>ALISON WHO</pattern>

<template>Alison to the radio on the internet.</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>LITTLE OLD LADY WHO</pattern>

<template>I didn't know you could yodle.</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>AMANDA WHO</pattern>

<template>Amanda fix the television.</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>WAITER WHO</pattern>

<template>Waiter minute while I upload a virus to your hard drive,
Just Kidding!</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>BOO WHO</pattern>

<template>Theres no reason to to cry, Its just a Joke.</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>ORANGE WHO</pattern>

<template>Orange you glad I am so funny?</template>
</category>

<category>
<pattern>FANNY WHO</pattern>

<template>Fanny the way a computer can have a sence of humor.</template>
</category>

</aiml>