#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;
use CGI qw/ *table *Tr Td /;
use HTML::TableContentParser;

my $html   = <<'HTML';
<table>
<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td></tr>
<tr><td>ro</td><td>sham</td><td>bo</td></tr>
<tr><td>&lt;ro&gt;</td><td>&lt;sham&gt;</td><td>&lt;bo&gt;</td></tr>
</table>
HTML

#~ my $p      = HTML::TableContentParser->new();
#~ my $tables = $p->parse($html);
#~ use DDS; die Dump($tables);

my $tables =
          [ { rows => [
            { cells => [
              { data => 1 },
              { data => 2 },
              { data => 3 }
            ] },
            { cells => [
              { data => 'ro' },
              { data => 'sham' },
              { data => 'bo' }
            ] },
            { cells => [
              { data => '&lt;ro&gt;' },
              { data => '&lt;sham&gt;' },
              { data => '&lt;bo&gt;' }
            ] }
          ] } ];



for my $t (@$tables) {
    print start_table();
    for my $r ( @{ $t->{rows} } ) {
        print start_Tr();
        for my $c ( @{ $r->{cells} } ) {
            print Td( $c->{data} );
        }
        print end_Tr();
    }
    print end_table();
}
__END__
$ perl html.tablecontentparser.to.html.pl |xml_pp
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>ro</td>
    <td>sham</td>
    <td>bo</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&lt;ro&gt;</td>
    <td>&lt;sham&gt;</td>
    <td>&lt;bo&gt;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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Instead of HTML::TableContentParser , I would standardize on HTML::Tree and xpath, see

In reply to Re^2: How do I reverse an extracted HTML table? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How do I reverse an extracted HTML table? by redmage

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