Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx & Tables

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, j_leczkesi wrote:
> I am looking for a program (in Perl, or C shell) which converts
> the HTML <table> into a Lynx readable format.
> 
> There are 3 URL programs  on the:
>      http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/patches.html   
> pages:
> 
> 1: http://frito.awa.com/cgi-bin/tableparse
> 2: http://frito.awa.com/cgi-bin/ctp
> 3: http://home.earthlink.net/~andrewsmith/tableparser-pl.txt
> 
> But:
>  the URL "frito.awa.com" does not exist and the
>  "tableparser-pl.txt" script has problems with the length
>  of the table field.
> 
> My question to You:
> 
> If one of You have a copy from the "frito.awa.com/cgi-bin/ ..." table
> parser scripts ("tableparse" and "ctp") or if You have some
> other <TABLE> to <pre> converting script, please send me 
> a copy from this.

I don't have the script you mention, but I would be interested in a copy
if anybody has one. Resources permitting, a CGI gateway running this
script would be a worthy addition to lynx.browser.org.

While it's not a renderer yet, I do have a table parser in perl (using
nsgmls) that figures out how big the table is and understands spanning.
All it lacks is a competent renderer :)


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