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{ {},   `<a href="http:`    ,    `">A LINK</a>`  } ,  

I too am curious. I did notice that leaving out {} makes things not work.

Will the author of transmute() please help out?

By default, this routine operates on single elements from each of the arguments. That is to say, it scans source_data for elements that match any single element in current_items and when matched, replaces that with a single element from new_items.

For example, you can find all occurrances of 'h', 's', and 't' in a string and replace them with '1', '2', and '3' respectively. transmute(SomeString, "hts", "123") However, the routine can also be used to scan for sub-sequences and/or replace matches with sequences rather than single elements. This is done by making the first element in current_items and/or new_items an empty sequence.