Automatic tagging of text

[Jesse Sng]

Hi,

I'm trying to automate something very repetitive here and I'm 
wondering if anyone has an example stack that does automatic 
generation of html anchor tags for email addresses and URLs?

I would assume that this would include ensuring that the resulting 
email address and URIs are properly formed and that checking is done 
in case some tags are already there - properly dealing with cases 
like: http://www.runrev.com/ vs www.runrev.com and then taking the 
appropriate action to <a 
href="http://www.runrev.com/">http://www.runrev.com/</a>

Has anyone done this yet? We have a situation where we get long text 
articles and this automatic capability will help tremendously in 
helping us eliminate the amount of work by hand.


Jesse