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My HTML-to-Markdown converter shipped tables my spreadsheet API couldn't parse — the colspan lie

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Built the HTML-to-Markdown endpoint so agent pipelines could turn messy web pages into clean Markdown. Tables looked perfect in my tests: pipe tables, aligned columns, the works. Then I pointed my XLSX converter at the output and watched it silently produce garbage — every row after a colspan was s…

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  1. 2026-10-15 03:02 · DEV Community — AI
    My HTML-to-Markdown converter shipped tables my spreadsheet API couldn't parse — the colspan lie

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