Better handling of tables in HTML to markdown conversion

[jgm]

Describe the proposed feature, including illustrative examples.

Currently Pandoc 'handles' tables in HTML to markdown conversion by just
stripping all table markup tags (

) usually leaving each table cell content as a normal text paragraph. Best of all would be if Pandoc could convert HTML tables not containing any nested tables into Pandoc markdown tables and leave tables with nested tables in place as HTML. Second best would be if all tables just be left as HTML -- perhaps according to an option whether to strip them or leave them alone. I attach a Perl script which simulates the behavior I'm looking for as well as the issue with blocks which I file at the same time as this issue. /BP Google Code Info: Issue #: 132 Author: bpjonsson Created On: 2009-03-05T13:56:10.000Z Closed On: 2009-12-05T07:56:44.000Z

[jgm]

I encountered an issue with my conversion script and some input files, so I changed
it to use a temporary file when converting content with tidy and pandoc through the
shell.

New version attached.

/BP

Google Code Info:
Author: bpjonsson
Created On: 2009-03-11T10:32:06.000Z

[jgm]

If you run pandoc with --parse-raw, the table tags will be passed through unscathed.
Is this sufficient for your needs? I hesitate to try to write an HTML table ->
pandoc table converter, because (i) HTML tables are still sometimes used for layout
in web pages, and (ii) pandoc tables include information about the relative widths of
columns, which would be hard to derive from HTML tables.

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-03-25T18:08:30.000Z

[jgm]

Sorry, I had totally missed --parse-raw. It is indeed what I needed. See, two days
of writing bad Perl for nothing! Not really: I still think the HTML to Pandoc
markdown conversion is kinda neat! :-)

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-04-05T12:03:36.000Z

[jgm]

Apologies for writing that last comment inder the wrong identity.
[email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] are all
me, in case you haven't noticed!

/BP

Google Code Info:
Author: bpjonsson
Created On: 2009-04-05T12:07:32.000Z

[jgm]

I'd like to close this bug. But I thought your script might be useful to others.
Would you mind if I put a link to it (or the script itself) on the pandoc website,
under Extras? If you think this is a good idea, you should perhaps add a license to
the source file.

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-11-01T03:29:53.000Z

[jgm]

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-12-05T07:56:44.000Z

[jgm]

I've written a new and IMHO improved script for converting HTML tables into markdown.
It no longer tries to integrate pandoc or tidy: you have to pipe output from pandoc's
HTML to markdown conversion (with the --parse-raw option) into it, like this:

pandoc -r html -R -w markdown in.html | perl html-table2pandoc >out.md

Input must be utf-8 encoded and output also always is utf-8 encoded. Not much of a
limitation since it applies to Pandoc too!

Google Code Info:
Author: bpjonsson
Created On: 2010-02-06T11:41:43.000Z