Autocompletion

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Autocompletion in EPrints 3 consists of serveral stages.

• A field in the workflow is configured to say what autocompletion URL to use, plus any additional parameters to pass to the script. This URL must be on the same server (eg. foo.eprints.org) but does not have to be part of the EPrints system.
• The autocomplete script takes the text typed so far (and maybe the additional parameters) and returns a chunk of XML describing possible autocomplete options. This XML consists of a number of rows (how many is up to the script). Each row contains some HTML to show the person viewing plus a magic
  block which is hidden from display, but is used by the autocomplete javascript to