Parsing HTML Tables Is Harder Than You Think
When I started building HTML Table Exporter, I thought parsing tables would be the easy part. Tables are structured data, right? Rows and columns. How complicated could it be?
Three months later, I had a folder called edge-cases with 47 test files an...
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So true — HTML tables look simple until you actually have to parse them programmatically. Colspan, rowspan, nested tables, inconsistent markup... it is a rabbit hole. Good breakdown of the edge cases.