SrgsRule Constructor (String)

Initializes a new instance of the SrgsRule class and specifies the identifier for the rule.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Speech.Recognition.SrgsGrammar
Assembly:  Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub New ( _
    id As String _
)
'Usage
Dim id As String

Dim instance As New SrgsRule(id)

public SrgsRule(
    string id
)

Parameters

• id
  Type: System.String
  The identifier of the rule.

Exceptions

Remarks

The SrgsRule.SrgsRule constructor initializes the Id property. The identifier must be unique within a given grammar.

The SrgsRule.SrgsRule constructor throws a FormatException in the following circumstances:

• id is not a valid XML name, as defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition). To paraphrase this definition, a valid XML name must begin with a letter, an underscore ('_'), or a colon (':') and can be followed by zero or more NameChar characters (also defined in the XML specification).

• id is "NULL" or "VOID" or "GARBAGE".

• id contains at least one invalid rule ID character. These characters are: '?', '*', '+', '|', '(', '), '^', '$', '/', ';', '.', '=', '<', '>', '[', ']', '{', '}', '\\', ' ', '\t', '\r', and '\n'.

Examples

The following example creates a grammar that recognizes the phrase "A nation that has won the World Cup is" followed by the name of a country that has won the World Cup. The example creates a SrgsRule object named winnerRule and passes in the identifier WorldCupWinner as a String. The SrgsOneOf object consists of an array of new SrgsItem objects containing alternatives to be recognized by the rule.

public void WorldSoccerWinners ()
{

  // Create an SrgsDocument, create a new rule
  // and set its scope to public.
  SrgsDocument document = new SrgsDocument();
  SrgsRule winnerRule = new SrgsRule("WorldCupWinner");
  winnerRule.Scope = SrgsRuleScope.Public;

  // Add the introduction.
  winnerRule.Elements.Add(new SrgsItem("A nation that has won the world cup is: "));

  // Create the rule for the European nations.
  SrgsOneOf oneOfEurope = new SrgsOneOf(new SrgsItem[] {new SrgsItem("England"), 
    new SrgsItem("France"), new SrgsItem("Germany"), new SrgsItem("Italy")});
  SrgsRule ruleEurope = (new SrgsRule("EuropeanNations", new SrgsElement[] {oneOfEurope}));

  // Create the rule for the South American nations.
  SrgsOneOf oneOfSAmerica = new SrgsOneOf(new SrgsItem[] {new SrgsItem("Argentina"), 
    new SrgsItem("Brazil"), new SrgsItem("Uruguay")});
  SrgsRule ruleSAmerica = (new SrgsRule("SouthAmericanNations", new SrgsElement[] {oneOfSAmerica}));

  // Add references to winnerRule for ruleEurope and ruleSAmerica.
  winnerRule.Elements.Add(new SrgsOneOf(new SrgsItem[] {(new SrgsItem 
    (new SrgsRuleRef(ruleEurope))), new SrgsItem(new SrgsRuleRef(ruleSAmerica))}));

  // Add all the rules to the document and make winnerRule 
  // the root rule of the document.
  document.Rules.Add(new SrgsRule[] {winnerRule, ruleEurope, ruleSAmerica});
  document.Root = winnerRule;
}

See Also

Reference

SrgsRule Class

SrgsRule Members

SrgsRule Overload

Microsoft.Speech.Recognition.SrgsGrammar Namespace

Other Resources

Create Grammars Using SrgsGrammar (Microsoft.Speech)