removing hyperlinks from end-notes in a PDF to HTML conversion

When you say strip do you mean the conversion does this

<a href="http://www.somedomain.com/folder/truncated_">http://www.somedomain.com/folder/truncated_</a> path/somefile.html

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And you want to end up with

http://www.somedomain.com/folder/truncated_path/somefile.html

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Some examples of what you are referring to be would be helpful to understand what it is you are asking.

Yes exactly

Do you have a sample of a converted document (or part of one with a broken hyperlink)?

Specifically need to see how lines are broken.

One solution is to use a regular expressiong

/<a(.*?)>(.*?)</a>/g, \1
The expression and implementation will vary depending on what you use to implement it but basically the expression matches all <a> tags and takes what is between them as the replacement for everything from the opening tag to the closing tag.

What tools would you use to process the html files to do the replace - Java?

The solution that we are using right now for this is to put the converted web pages into Dreamweaver and then use the find and replace function to quickly go through and find the hyperlinks and the remove the /a tag

Understood but I could recommend a solution in PHP only to find you don't use PHP - hence my question given a scripted solution what server side script environment would you prefer to use?

We can use what ever language, what do you recommend?

Thanks for the help