Converting output of dw.findNext() to a string

Question

I'm writing a script to search for
<span class="hyperlink">content</span>
in a document, change the <span> tag to <a>, and the content to href="http://content" target="_blank"
I'm thinking that part of accomplishing this would be converting the output of dw.findNext() to a string and storing the resulting string as a variable.Then I could use the variable in dreamweaver.setUpComplexFindReplace().
I'm just not entirely sure how to do that - particularly given that there are going to be multiple instances of <span class="hyperlink">content</span> in the documents I'm searching, and I want to accurately convert every one of them.
Suggestions?

Answer 1

Sorry - I'm being dense, but I'm having some trouble picturing how to convert the output of dw.findNext() or dw.findAll() to an array.  The idea makes a lot of sense though - I could see the script looking a bit like this:
(Script converting the output of dw.findAll() to an array (findAllArray))
Ctr = 0;
while (Ctr < findAllArray.length) {
findAllString = findAllArray[Ctr].toString()
if (findString.match("http://")) {
findString = findString }
else { findString = "http://" + findString }
dreamweaver.setUpComplexFindReplace('<dwquery><queryparams matchcase="false" ignorewhitespace="true" useregexp="false" wholeword="false" /><find><qtext qname="&lt;a class=&quot;hyperlink&quot;" qraw="true"></qtext></find><replace action="replaceText" param1="&lt;a href=&quot;' + findString + 'L&quot; onClick=&quot;popup = window.open(\'' + findString + '\', \'PopupPage\', \'height=500,width=575,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes\'); return false&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;" /> </dwquery>');
dreamweaver.replaceAll()