MS Word to Abiword hyperlink conversion issues

Hi all,

I scanned the mailing list archives for this problem and have not found it (maybe it's already been raised, but I could not find it).

I'm experiencing issues with hyperlinks in Ms Word when they are either rendered in html using Abiword or when I import the document into Abiword and view in HTML.

The command I use is: C:\abiword\AbiWord\bin\AbiWord.exe C:\PHP\TEMP\00000000-a714-8652.DOC --to=html --to-name=C:/TSC/files/KB040202/40202.HTML

Abiword 2.6.4
Running on Windows Server 2003.
Documents being converted to HTML are in MS Word 2003.

I also added a bug report: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11813
 
I'll give you two examples:

Case 1: URL
MS Word:
http://PRTCHQ828

When I convert to HTML using, this hyperlink shows as:

<a href="http%3a//PRTCHQ828"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Verdana'" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">http://PRTCHQ828</span></a>

What I notice is the %3a which stands for :
I therefore find myself having to do some pre-processing before displaying the HTML content

 $HTMLCONTENT = str_replace("%3a",":",$HTMLCONTENT);

Case 2: Hyperlink a file or folder resource

MS Word:
\\xxxx-xx-yyyya\TTT\Problem_Resolution_Team\Pinne\Flash_Pinne_Printers.hta

HTML from Abiword:

<a href="%5c%5c%5c%5cxxxx-xx-yyyya%5c%5cTTT%5c%5cProblem_Resolution_Team%5c%5cPinne%5c%5cFlash_Pinne_Printers.hta"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt;font-family:'Verdana';text-decoration:underline" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">\\xxxx-xx-yyyya\TTT\Problem_Resolution_Team\Pinne\Flash_Pinne_Printers.hta</span></a></p>

Again, to fix this I do some pre-processing before displaying the html content:

$HTMLCONTENT = str_replace("%5c%5c",'\\',$HTMLCONTENT);

It would be grand if I didn't have to do any pre-processing. If you have any ideas, let me know :-))) thanks !

BTW I love Abiword, it enables me to render MS Word documents in HTML. It's super great! (I wish AbiCommand were available for Windows...)-----------------------------------------------
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Received on Wed Nov 26 14:05:12 2008