An idea of the HTML engine
Ever thought about what your tables might look like? Why not represent a table as a<TABLE>? You would be able to see it, visually, in any browser. Sounds cool. But how could we make it work?
We want a simple engine, not an all-purpose Swiss Army Knife HTML-to-SQL converter, which means we will not need any existing universal HTML or XML parsers, but can rely on a fixed file format. For example, something like this:
<html><head><title>t1</title></head><body><table border=1> <tr><th>col1</th><th>other col</th><th>more cols</th></tr> <tr><td>data</td><td>more data</td><td>more data</td></tr> <!-- this row was deleted ... --> <tr><td>data</td><td>more data</td><td>more data</td></tr>
... and so on ...
</table></body></html>
But even then this engine is way...
