JavaScript regular expression to replace HTML anchors

I got a HTML string and from this I want to convert some special a tags to something else. I need this for a TinyMCE plugin. I tried to change Wordpress wpgallery plugin.

For example: These are in HTML string

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> 
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
<a href="#" rel='special' title='link cat_id="4" content_id="5" content_slug="Slug 1"'>Some where else</a>

Here I have to find special link one and convert it to something else from it's title value like:

{link cat_id="4" content_id="5" content_slug="Slug 1"}

i need return value like this to insert it into MySQL

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> 
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
{link cat_id="4" content_id="5" content_slug="Slug 1"}

I tried this

function getAttr(开发者_如何学编程s, n) {
            n = new RegExp(n + '="([^"]+)"', 'g').exec(s);
            return n ? tinymce.DOM.decode(n[1]) : '';
        };

return co.replace(/[^<]*(<a href="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/a>)/g, function(a,im) {
var cls = getAttr(im, 'rel');
   if ( cls.indexOf('special') != -1 )
       return '{'+tinymce.trim(getAttr(im, 'title'))+'}';

   return a;
});

this

/[^<]*(<a href="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/a>)/g

does not find tags with rel eq to 'special' but all the others.

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You might want to look into the DOMDocument and related classes. They are much better at parsing HTML than a homebrewed regex solution would be.

You can create a DOMdocument using your supplied markup, execute getElementsByTagName to get all the hyperlinks, scan their attributes for a rel attribute with the value of special, and then take the appropriate action.