Creating anchor links in rich text fields with SDL Tridion 2011 SP1

Question

I am trying to use the anchor button in a RTF field of a Component, and getting unexpected behavior. Using the Chrome Browser from the design view, I highlight/select the he

Answer 1

Thanks Chris, I've edited your solution to fit my requirements so wanted to share for anyone with this issue in the future.

Note: This moves the text inside the anchor and deletes the text outside. Fixes anchors that were intended to contain text only, not html. i.e My solution fixes this tag:

Anchor text

To

Anchor text

But not this:

Anchor text

Here's my xsl. Hopefully it will help give you a base, I'm sure you could easily update it to look for a following tag (I don't require this for my solution).

Here's my test XML

    
    
        
Anchor linkSome text after
        
Anchor - broken with html

        
Anchor - broken text only
        

        
Anchor - correctly rendered Some text after
    

After transform:

    
    
        
Anchor linkSome text after
        
Anchor - broken with html

        
Anchor - broken text only
        

        
Anchor - correctly rendered Some text after
    

Hope this helps