Option #3 (HTML post-procssing) seemed to work. This Python script takes a directory of HTML files, and removes the [[ and ]] and replaces them with <span class

Option #3 (HTML post-procssing) seemed to work. This Python script takes a directory of HTML files, and removes the [[ and ]] and replaces them with <span class="link-placeholder"> and </span>. ---- import os from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Function to process HTML files in a directory def process_html_files(directory): for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory): for file in files: if file.endswith('.html'): filepath = os.path.join(root, file) process_html_file(filepath) # Function to process individual HTML file def process_html_file(filepath): with open(filepath, 'r') as f: html_content = f.read() # Parse HTML soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser') # Iterate through all text nodes in the HTML for text_node in soup.find_all(text=True): if '[[' in text_node and ']]' in text_node: # Replace [[ and ]] within the text nodes with <span> tags replaced_text = text_node.replace('[[', '<span class="link-placeholder">').replace(']]', '</span>') text_node.replace_with(BeautifulSoup(replaced_text, 'html.parser')) # Write back the modified HTML with open(filepath, 'w') as f: f.write(str(soup)) # Replace 'your_directory_path' with the directory containing your HTML files process_html_files('site')