Re: Converting HTML tables to Markdown

["'William Lupton' via pandoc-discuss" <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>]

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I think that your HTML must contain tables that cannot be represented in
gfm and therefore are left as HTML (which is valid gfm I believe?). When
you specify -raw_html you are forbidding pandoc from doing this, so I guess
this is why it outputs [TABLE]. As for the empty output in the last case,
when I tried it I got a "The extension native_divs is not supported for
gfm" error, which is presumably why no output was generated.

On Sun, 28 May 2023 at 13:04, <mails.lists.2012-1-rRloVJBGZzogAv4oPwG0Al6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm a bit clueless with HTML table conversion at the moment.
>
> I currently use pandoc 3.1.2 on x64 and I'm converting some HTML dumps
> into Markdown (gfm).
>
> I read the manpage, the web site docs and googled, but apparently missed
> the crucial pointer so far.
>
>
> In many cases, by default tables end up as raw HTML in the Markdown output.
>
> I tried to circumvent this by using
>
>     pandoc -f html -t gfm-raw_html
>
> However, instead of the actual table, only the following text is being
> output then:
>
>     [TABLE]
>
> That's obviously not what I want.
>
> If I add something like
>
>     -native_divs-native_spans-fenced_divs-bracketed_spans
>
> to my output format spec, nothing is output any more for my affected test file, i.e. the output stays totally empty.
>
>
> I just want my HTML table to be converted into a corresponding Markdown
> table, at least as good as it can be expressed in Markdown - I'm aware that
> HTML tables allow for more features and in many cases may not be converted
> perfectly or not without some information loss or adaptions.
>
> However just getting the word "TABLE" is the output is too much simplified
> in my eyes, with all table content being completely lost...
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>   Gunter
>
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