I get a wierd error...

[greenmachine]

Put this in your AIML_Respond function after the line $pos = _ArraySearch ($patterns, $message):

_ArrayDisplay ($patterns, "patterns")

_ArrayDisplay ($templates, "templates")

MsgBox (0, "pos", $pos)

Something about your xml stuff is only returning the first pattern, and since you have "For $i = 0 To $categories_num" to put the values in the arrays, every space (including 0, which is defaulted in the respond function) is filled with "hello" and "hi there", respectively. Change the for line to "For $i = 1 To $categories_num" and you can at least fix 1 pattern.

[theguy0000]

Yes! I got it to work! thanks so much!