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The function templeChanged is the change event handler for fields which contain the text representation of a Church of Latter Day Saints Temple. This method is invoked with this a reference to the <input> tag, and is passed an instance of a change Event object as a parameter.

The function performs a number of operations on the value of the <input> element:

1. Spaces are inserted after commas if required.
2. Most words are capitalized. For example "london, middlesex, ontario, canada" is changed to "London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada".
3. A set of common words are treated as abbreviations and replaced. This is used to speed up data entry, for example the stand-alone letter "E" is replaced by "England", and "1/2" is replaced by "½". This is also used for words which are not capitalized or are completely capitalized in location names.

Once these normalizations have been completed on the input value, the database is searched using /Family/getTempleJSON.php to find matching instances of class Temple. If there is only one Temple which starts with the string value then the full name of the Temple is supplied. If there is more than one Temple which starts with the string value then a dialog is displayed to permit selecting one existing Temple. If there is no matching Temple the application displays a warning. For example if you enter "Toronto" this matches the pre-defined Temple "Toronto, ON, CA".

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