How to read onclick properties on row of a table using HTML::Table::Extractor

ckj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, My perl code is something like this and it is also working fine:

use HTML::TableExtract;
 $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( headers => [qw(Date Price Comments)] )
+;
 $te->parse($html_string);

 # Examine all matching tables
 foreach $ts ($te->tables) {
   print "Table (", join(',', $ts->coords), "):\n";
   foreach $row ($ts->rows) {
      print join(',', @$row), "\n";
   }
 }
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My table is something like this:

<table>
<tr><td>Date</td><td>Price</td><td>Comments</th></tr>
<tr onclcick="dkfjskdjfskfd"><td>21/9</td><td>2324</td><td>abc</td></t
+r>
<tr onclcick="dkfjskdjfskfd1"><td>21/9</td><td>2324</td><td>abasdasc</
+td></tr>
<tr onclcick="dkfjskdjfskfdsdfsdf2"><td>21/9</td><td>2324</td><td>absa
+dsadsc</td></tr>
</table>
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Now the data are coming fine, but I want to read the onclick properties also for each row. so output should be something like this :

dkfjskdjfskfd, 21/9, 2324, abc
dkfjskdjfskfd1, 21/9, 2324, abasdasc
dkfjskdjfskfdsdfsdf2, 21/9, 2324, absadsadsc
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Please advise to include the row properties through HTML::Table::Extract

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Re: How to read onclick properties on row of a table using HTML::Table::Extractor ( DOM approach using xsh) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2012 at 09:37 UTC
xsh is kinda hard to learn but this does it :) `$ xsh -q < table.xsh /body/table ,Date,Price,Comments dkfjskdjfskfd,21/9,2324,abc dkfjskdjfskfd1,21/9,2324,abasdasc dkfjskdjfskfdsdfsdf2,21/9,2324,absadsadsc $ cat table.xsh open "table.html"; for //table { echo; pwd; echo; for ./tr { my $first = @onclcick; $first \|\|=""; echo xsh:join(",", $first, ./td ); }; echo; }; echo;` [download] Naturally it doesn't handle rowspan/colspan or tbodys	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to read onclick properties on row of a table using HTML::Table::Extractor by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2012 at 07:57 UTC
If you use Dumper as recommended in Basic debugging checklist you can see that no attributes are saved Read more... (2 kB) Checking the module on cpan, particularly the buglist I see Bug #27372 for HTML-TableExtract: Access to row/cell attributes So there you go, if you want this feature, you'll have to patch the module Also, please mark your updates , thank you. See How do I change/delete my post?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to read onclick properties on row of a table using HTML::Table::Extractor by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2012 at 06:08 UTC
Please advise to include the row properties through HTML::Table::Extract There is no such module In any case, I would ditch the module, use the DOM There is probably an example in the distribution (in the test directory)	[reply]