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1.1     ! bowersj2    1: \label{Authoring_ExternalResponse}
        !             2: 
        !             3: 
        !             4: \textbf{externalresponse} is an advanced type of response tag that
        !             5: implements the ability to have an external program grade a response.
        !             6: It expects either a \textbf{textline} or \textbf{textfield} inside
        !             7: the tag. Possible attributes are:
        !             8: 
        !             9: \begin{itemize}
        !            10: \item \textbf{url}\index{url}: the url to submit the answer form to. Does
        !            11: not need to be a LON-CAPA machine.
        !            12: \item \textbf{answer}\index{answer}: a string or scalar variable that can
        !            13: encode something that should encode the correct answer. In some cases
        !            14: this may be nothing. 
        !            15: \item \textbf{form}\index{form}: a hash variable name that will be submitted
        !            16: to the remote site as a HTTP form.
        !            17: \end{itemize}
        !            18: The response of the remote server needs to be in XML as follows: 
        !            19: 
        !            20: \begin{itemize}
        !            21: \item \textbf{loncapagrade}\index{loncapagrade}: takes no attributes, but
        !            22: must surround the response.
        !            23: \item \textbf{awardetail}\index{awardetail}: required. The delimited text
        !            24: inside must be one of the detailed results that appears in the data
        !            25: storage documentation. CVS:loncapa/doc/homework/datastorage, look
        !            26: for \textbf{resource.partid.responseid.awarddetail}.
        !            27: \item \textbf{message}\index{message}: optional message to have shown to
        !            28: the student
        !            29: \end{itemize}
        !            30: Example: \begin{verbatim} <loncapagrade>
        !            31:     <awardetail>INCORRECT</awardetail>
        !            32:     <message>
        !            33: A message to be shown to the students
        !            34:     </message>
        !            35: </loncapagrade>
        !            36: \end{verbatim}