I'm using HTML::TableExtract to scrape a website.

The module either works in html mode or it doesn't, as set by the keep_html option in the constructor.

Troubke is, I want to get at some columns as text and others as HTML, (to get at some productIDs in URLs).

The workaround goes like:

• make the first TableExtract object with keep_html off, go through table rows creating an AoH with the text values.
• make a second TableExtract object with keep_html on, go through table rows again updating the AoH with the values from HTML.

Obviously I'd be in big trouble if the two parsers didn't find the same data, but that's not a problem.

Is there a smarter way to do this or another table module which would help?

TIA

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