Re: Contribution: HTML::TableExtract::Raw

Julian Mehnle wrote:

>I needed a class to extract the _raw_ HTML code of a table specified
>through depth and count (similar to HTML::TableExtract), instead of its
>_parsed_ rows and columns.  I wrote it as a sub-class of HTML::Parser:
>
>  http://files.mehnle.net/software/perl/HTML/TableExtract/Raw.pm
>
>I'm going to add documentation to it soon.
>
>Would you like to include it in your HTML-TableExtract CPAN distribution?
>  
>
I can take a look at it -- this sort of functionality is fairly 
frequently requested, but I have never had the time to really do it 
properly. It's sort of a sub-problem of the "target tables within HTML 
documents and edit them in place" problem, which involves a sort of 
mapping onto something like an HTML::Element tree structure.

Part of the power of HTML::TableExtract is correctly targeting tables, 
in particular by headers. Also, when you retain the entire HTML 
structure, do you want your outer tables to contain the entire HTML 
structure of embedded tables, etc.

I haven't looked at yours yet, but I'm curious what the options are. At 
the very least, there's probably some overlap in the targetting 
functionality.

Matt



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