Import Html text and convert to InDesign tags

Hello everybody,
The script receives a JSON with text (html markup: headers <h1>, , new line characters, ...).
I have to save the converted text into a temp text file and then do .place() into a text frame. That's the only way it can recognise new tags.
//text and contentArea are defined previously.
var convertedText = convertTags(text);
var convertedTextFile = new File (FILE_PATH + "/Temp/convertedTextFile.txt");
convertedTextFile.open('wr');
convertedTextFile.write(convertedText);
convertedTextFile.close();
contentArea.place(convertedTextFile);
function convertTags(htmlTaggedText){
 var inDesignTaggedText = "<ASCII-MAC>\n" + htmlTaggedText.replace("<h1>", "<ParaStyle:Heading 1>").replace("</h1>", "");
 return inDesignTaggedText;
General question is, whether there is any more elegant solution to this?
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