Suppose I have a table. Now, I’m interested in Getting Useful Data Easily. This means I’d rather not drop it into Excel and go through contortions, nor somehow get it into CSV and then into a DB, and then into SQL.
I’d like to be able to execute a SQL query directly against a table in HTML.
Has anyone heard of a tool like this before? I’ve never seen one.
There’s no tool to query an HTML table with SQL as far as I know, but XQuery is a standard language you can use to find elements in an XML or XHTML source in a manner very similar to using SQL to query databases.