NAME

       HTML::TableParser::Table - support class for HTML::TableParser

VERSION

       version 0.43

DESCRIPTION

       This class is used to keep track of information related to a table and to create the
       information passed back to the user callbacks.  It is in charge of marshalling the
       massaged header and row data to the user callbacks.

       An instance is created when the controlling TableParser class finds a "<table" tag.  The
       object is given an id based upon which table it is to work on.  Its methods are invoked
       from the TableParser callbacks when they run across an appropriate tag ("tr", "th", "td").
       The object is destroyed when the matching "/table" tag is found.

       Since tables may be nested, multiple HTML::TableParser::Table objects may exist
       simultaneously.  HTML::TableParser uses two pieces of information held by this class --
       ids and process.  The first is an array of table ids, one element per level of table
       nesting.  The second is a flag indicating whether this table is being processed (i.e. it
       matches a requested table) or being ignored.  Since HTML::TableParser uses the ids
       information from an existing table to initialize a new table, it first creates an empty
       sentinel (place holder) table (by calling the HTML::TableParser::Table constructor with no
       arguments).

       The class handles missing "/tr", "/td", and "/th" tags.  As such (especially when handling
       multi-row headers) user callbacks may be slightly delayed (and data cached).  It also
       handles rows with overlapping columns

METHODS

   new
   match_id
   req_match_id
   req_match_cols
   match_hdr
   match_req
   callback
   start_header
   end_header
   start_column
   end_column
   start_row
   end_row
   finish_header
   fix_texts
   text
   id
   ids
   process

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-TableParser> or by email to
       bug-HTML-TableParser@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-HTML-TableParser@rt.cpan.org>.

       When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing
       test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SOURCE

       The development version is on github at <https://github.com/djerius/html-tableparser> and
       may be cloned from <git://github.com/djerius/html-tableparser.git>

SEE ALSO

       Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

       •   HTML::TableParser

AUTHOR

       Diab Jerius <djerius@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is Copyright (c) 2018 by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

       This is free software, licensed under:

         The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007