What are we even doing?
An important facet of our conversational agent is the visuals that accompany it. While it looks a bit complicated it is nothing above basic HTML. We utilize a combination of Prolog, HTML and bootstrap to generate these dynamic webpages. Prolog rules are how we add a condition to a webpage i.e. this webpage is shown when Clause X is true. Within this same rule we generate our HTML code. The HTML code is treated as an atom, essentially a string, that we manipulate with Prolog and return with the rule. The HTML code is done in bootstrap format which is clearly depicted in examples below or on bootstrap's documentation website(Bootstrap Documentation).
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Prolog Advice: To manipulate strings and atoms in Prolog it is useful to look at the functionalities of the following functions: atomic_list_concat, atom_concat, string_concat, append, maplist, format, applyTemplate(will be explained) |
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