A simple example could be the Twitter API's handling for references (URLs/hashtags/at-user mentions) in a tweet [0]. The tweet text is returned in one field, an

A simple example could be the Twitter API's handling for references (URLs/hashtags/at-user mentions) in a tweet [0]. The tweet text is returned in one field, and all references are listed in a different field together with first/last character index within the tweet where that reference was found. You don't need to parse the tweet text yourself, just display it as plain text and insert links where the references say you should. [0]: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/entities-in-twitter-objects#the-urls-entity https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/entities-in-twitter-obj...