Design question - HTML table parser

[Rio]

I'm trying to build HTML table parser (available not satisfying my needs), I
need to know what is in every cell, along with its cell, row and table
number plus the attributes that go with those tags.

I create Table, TableRow and TableCell objects each containing an array list
of subelements. That works fine when the tables are not nested, so my
question is how would I design Table that holds Rows that hold Cells which
again can contain the whole Table!

[Hal Rosser]

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I'm trying to build HTML table parser (available not satisfying my needs), I need to know what is in every cell, along with its cell, row and table
number plus the attributes that go with those tags.

I create Table, TableRow and TableCell objects each containing an array list of subelements. That works fine when the tables are not nested, so my
question is how would I design Table that holds Rows that hold Cells which again can contain the whole Table!

<table>
<tr>
<td>content</td>
<td> <table>
<tr>
<td>content</td>
<td>more content</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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[Pop Qvarnström]

Rio wrote:

I'm trying to build HTML table parser (available not satisfying my needs),
I need to know what is in every cell, along with its cell, row and table
number plus the attributes that go with those tags.

I create Table, TableRow and TableCell objects each containing an array
list of subelements. That works fine when the tables are not nested, so my
question is how would I design Table that holds Rows that hold Cells
which again can contain the whole Table!

I'd suggest creating an interface TableData. Then each TableCell can contain
TableData, and Table could implement that.

I used something like this in an old HTML -> fixed width formatted text
parser.

public interface TableData {
public String[] getText();
}

public class Table implements TableData {
....
}

public class TableCell {
public TableCell(TableData) {...}
}