Do simple assignments of the form <assign location="id" expr="value" /> work in commons scxml?
I have this state machine description: <scxml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml" version="1.0" initial="Start"> <datamodel> <data expr="true" id="VarBool"/> <data expr="1" id="VarInt"/> <data id="currentResponse" expr=""Sorry I do not understand!"" /> </datamodel> <state id="Start"> <onentry> <log expr="'Start'" /> </onentry> <transition event="what-is-my-name" target="WhatIsMyName" /> <transition event="current-weather" target="CurrentWeather" /> </state> <state id="WhatIsMyName"> <onentry> <log expr="'What is my name'" /> <assign location="currentResponse" expr=""Your name is noted!"" /> </onentry> <transition target="Start" /> </state> INFO: transition (event = what-is-my-name, cond = null, from = /Start, to = /WhatIsMyName) Feb 28, 2019 9:04:53 PM org.apache.commons.scxml2.SCXMLExecutionContext execute INFO: null: What is my name Feb 28, 2019 9:04:53 PM org.apache.commons.scxml2.env.SimpleErrorReporter handleErrorMessageWARNING: EXPRESSION_ERROR (evalLocation('currentResponse'): java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.Node): Expression error inside /WhatIsMyNameFeb 28, 2019 9:04:53 PM org.apache.commons.scxml2.env.SimpleSCXMLListener onEntry INFO: enter /WhatIsMyName I have tried with both commons scxml version 0.9 as well as 2.0 Regards, Diptendu Dutta