1.4 beta is intended to handle template parameters. Unforunately when calling the recursive tag parser for this it will already create fully useable html code like <nowiki><a href='some url'> ...</a> and we only need the href part. So the current code is somewhat hacky by reversing the process and fishing the href part back from this anchor code. It works in our environment and so we decided to share it. I didn't find the signature in the editor so I am linking to my own user @Seppl2013 instead,
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