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Re: lynx-dev Re: external table filtering
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: external table filtering |
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Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:11:42 -0500 (EST) |
991123 Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Hataguchi Takeshi wrote:
>> Please try http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~patakuti/tmp/t2thtml
>> "usepre" means convert tables to preformatted text as old one does.
>> "usetable" means convert tables to tables as you wrote
>> (which is fitted for TRST support Lynx)
> Unfortunately, I cannot really agree that the output is that great. :(
> In some simple cases yes, but in more general cases
> it can get much worse than without *any* table handling.
> There are so many things that can (and do) go wrong,
> starting with FORM fields (not that I really understand
> what the script tries to do with them, or with IMGs and some other tags).
> To get everything right, the script would have to grow into something
> that includes a full HTML parser. That doesn't look very practicable.
> But otherwise there'll always be some constructs that get mishandled
> e.g. SGML comments with arbitrary contents or ">" in attribute values.
> probably t2thtml can be improved to the level of Tom's latest t2tgrnest.
this doesn't seem a profitable approach at all.
TZ' t2tgrnest does a very good job on the OCAA tables.
if you want to fit tables back into an HTML source for some reason,
you should simply apply t2tgrnest & enclose the result in <pre> ... </pre> .
referring to KW's other message yesterday,
whether/not gawk is close enough to C for direct transplanting,
the logic of the t2tgrnest functions sb easy to recast into C functions.
obviously, you don't try to have Lynx process tables
during its regular 1-pass operation:
it has to be separated like frames, but that's not a problem,
given that users will typically want to apply TableSoup
only when they see (ugly) tables in some existing rendering.
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- Re: lynx-dev TRST : the next step, Hataguchi Takeshi, 1999/11/17
- lynx-dev external table filtering (was: TRST : the next step), Klaus Weide, 1999/11/19
- lynx-dev Re: external table filtering (was: TRST : the next step), Hataguchi Takeshi, 1999/11/20
- lynx-dev Re: external table filtering (was: TRST : the next step), Hataguchi Takeshi, 1999/11/20
- Re: lynx-dev Re: external table filtering (was: TRST : the next step), Klaus Weide, 1999/11/23
- Re: lynx-dev Re: external table filtering (was: TRST : the next step), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/11/23
- Re: lynx-dev Re: external table filtering,
Philip Webb <=
- Re: lynx-dev Re: external table filtering, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/23
- lynx-dev links in tables, Philip Webb, 1999/11/23
- Re: lynx-dev links in tables, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/23