From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) Subject: Import HTML tables Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:42:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87r40cfsn1.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJkc2-0000uG-AG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:42:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJkc0-0001uC-Mk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:42:14 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22c]:38704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJkc0-0001u2-Jf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:42:12 -0400 Received: by mail-yk0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 10so5499124ykt.3 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:42:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org's message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:00:33 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, I'm looking for a good way to import HTML tables into org-mode tables. This is complicated by the fact that HTML tables can include multi-line data, which seems to be functionality not present in org-mode. What I usually end up doing is a string of regexp replacements to convert to linebreaks and to vertical bars, but this is tiresome for a functionality that I'm sure is pretty frequently needed. I've tried pandoc, but it doesn't seem to handle html tables either. Is there an already-existing functionality out there for importing HTML tables into org? Thanks, - Tory