convert html table to indesign table

Report · Mar 23, 2016

Hello

How to convert HTML table into indesign table?

Can anyone give me some ideas please.

Thanks

Report · Mar 23, 2016

html is basically a markup language so you can think of loading it as a XML object and create a native InDesign table then import data where you need it. Otherwise you can think of importing it while operating a XLST transformation.

FWIW

Report · Mar 23, 2016

How to load html ?? Unlike xml html does not support any "load" property.

How to read the table element from the html file?

What should i import other than mshtml?

Report · Mar 24, 2016

html file :

 <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
     <head>
         <title></title>
     </head>
     <body>
         <p>Hello from HTML</p>
     </body>
 </html>

js:

var f = File ( Folder.desktop+"/hello.html" );
f.open('r');
var x = XML ( f.read() );
f.close();


alert( x.descendants("*:body/*:p" )  )

then:

FWIW,

Loic

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