add HTML to text node extracted via node.nodeValue

Question

I wanted to know if there\'s any way I could output HTML after extracting contents() and performing a replace on all of the text-nodes in it.

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Answer 1

Your problem is that you're inserting the HTML into a text node (and it's therefore being treated as text). Instead of replacing _link_ with Google, you'd want to take the text node, remove the text from _link_ onward, append an HTML node (that contains the anchor) and put all of text after _link_ into a new text node following that.