Question

I have a bunch of Word docs which were “saved as” filtered html. The html files contain extraneous ole-links which I need to delete. For example, I want to replace:

<h3><a name="OLE_LINK25">My Section Title</a></h3>

with

<h3>My Section Title</h3>

Any suggestions for how I might do this, in an automated way?

Answer 1

Jsoup could help to remove all anchor tags with name starting with “OLE”.

Elements anchors = doc.select("a[name^=OLE]");
for (Iterator it = anchors.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
    Element anchor = it.next();
    String text = anchor.text();
    Element header = anchor.parent();
    header.text(text);
}