How to convert anchor tag with href attribute to display only text with hyperlink

[#1]

Hi All,

In my current application I will have to parse the xml file and show its contents in different frames. In my xml file there is anchor element with href tag and I want to display only the text of anchor while href attribute should be converted into hyerplink for ex. my xml file has following element 

<Text>Doc. <a href="/doc/source/docs/A_63_435-E.pdf" target="_blank">A/63/435</a>; C.N.869.2009.TREATIES-34 of 11 December 2009 (Rectification of the original of the Protocol (French authentic text) and transmission of the Procès-verbal).</Text> and inside indesign generated pdf it should look like 

Kindly suggest how can I acheive it and further if such anchor and href attributes are repeated inside the xml file how can I replace all such elements like  above

Regards,

[#2]

Hi All,

In my current application I will have to parse the xml file and show its contents in different frames. In my xml file there is anchor element with href tag and I want to display only the text of anchor while href attribute should be converted into hyerplink for ex. my xml file has following element 

<Text>Doc. <a href="/doc/source/docs/A_63_435-E.pdf" target="_blank">A/63/435</a>; C.N.869.2009.TREATIES-34 of 11 December 2009 (Rectification of the original of the Protocol (French authentic text) and transmission of the Procès-verbal).</Text> and inside indesign generated pdf it should look like 

Kindly suggest how can I acheive it and further if such anchor and href attributes are repeated inside the xml file how can I replace all such elements like  above

Regards,

[#3]

Hi,

Try this code for adding external URL to text:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var myDoc = app.documents[0];
var xPath = ["//a[@href]"];
var root = myDoc.xmlElements[0];
var node = null;
try {
    var proc = app.xmlRuleProcessors.add(xPath);
    var match = proc.startProcessingRuleSet(root);
    while (match != undefined) {
        node = match.element;
        match = proc.findNextMatch();
        if (node != null && node != undefined) {
            if (node.xmlAttributes.item('href').isValid){
                var sourceText = myDoc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(node.texts[0]);
                var destinationURL = myDoc.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(node.xmlAttributes.item('href').value.toString());
                myDoc.hyperlinks.add(sourceText, destinationURL);
                }
            }
        }
    }

catch (ex) {}
finally {
    proc.endProcessingRuleSet();
    proc.remove();
    }

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Best

Sunil

[#4]

Hi Sunil,

Thank you so much for the xml rules and other xml parsing way suggested by you, but the solution is not working for me. Basically in my application I have to parse the entire xml file and assign its content to different frames seperately and each frame data has different formatting requirement, so what I am looking here is something which works at the frame level, like parsed xml conetents are assigned to below two frames.

Both are two different frames and for 2nd frame I want that anchor and ref tag should be replcaed as request. If there are multile frames with similar anchor and href tag then it should also be work as requested in my query

Attaching sample xml tags of xml file for your referencce

Regards,

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Try this one for that:

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "<a";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "@";
app.documents[0].changeText();
app.documents[0].recompose();
/////////////////////////////////
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "</a>";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "@";
app.documents[0].changeText();
app.documents[0].recompose();
/////////////////////////////////
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "(?<=@)([^@]+)(?=@)";
var allFound = app.documents[0].findGrep();
for(var i = 0; i < allFound.length; i){
    app.select(allFound[i].texts[0]);
    var allContent = allFound[i].texts[0].contents;
    app.selection[0].contents = allContent.split(">")[1];
    app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].parentStory.characters[app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].index-1].remove();
    app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].parentStory.characters[app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].index].remove();
    var sourceText = app.documents[0].hyperlinkTextSources.add(app.selection[0].texts[0]);
    var destinationURL = app.documents[0].hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(allContent.split(">")[0].split('”')[1]);
    app.documents[0].hyperlinks.add(sourceText, destinationURL);
    app.documents[0].recompose();
    var allFound = app.documents[0].findGrep();
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Best

Sunil

[#6]

Hi Sunil,

Thank you so much for your efforts!!. I will check and let you know if it works for me..

Regards,

Ashish

[#7]

Hi Sunil,

Thanks you so much for your help. The solution provided by you is working perfectly fine and I am really greatful to you for the time and efforts you have taken to provide solution to me.

Regards,

Ashish