HTML Table Reorganiser

This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

This lets you extract an HTML table and reorganise it, e.g. remove a column, transpose two columns, add an empty column, permute the columns. Basically you hand it a tuple:

java.exe Reorg mytable.html 1 9 3 8 0 0 2

Which means construct me a new table composed of column 1 of the original, then 9, then 3, then a dummy, then another dummy, then column 2. Ignore the rest of the table.

The other thing it can do is transpose, convert the rows to columns and the columns to rows.

I have written a very crude one. I would send it to you by email to help you get started. It uses very primitive parsing. It can’t handle elaborate TD tags.

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