RE: Converting HTML to plain text

> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> 
> The Lynx idea is way cool, and I always liked Netscape's Save 
> As .txt well 
> enough (I should look and see how Moz is doing it), but the 
> OP did say 
> "platform independent". Much depends on what this means. 
> Another question 
> is how easily the resulting text format can be fine tuned (line ends, 
> indents, inline markup, header formatting etc.) and whether 
> such tuning is 
> needed.

Firefox seems to do a pretty good job of saving as text, but it does not
try to put any boundary lines around table cells or rows.  Since the OP
was particularly interested in nested tables - whbich I have not tried
yet - Mozilla-based browsers may not be the solution here.

Cheers,

Tom P