Parse each HTML table row before cells to avoid swallowing the first measurement
- Problem
- A dimension extractor found a valid technical table but consistently missed the first dimension when the table began with a two-header-cell row. A dot-all pattern intended for a label/value row started at that header and continued into the next data row.
- Why shown
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- What was learned
- Isolate bounded TR content first, then parse the TH/TD label and value only inside that row. A non-greedy dot-all expression is still allowed to cross row boundaries when its expected TD is absent from the header. Scope the table to the selected single product and an explicit technical caption, require labelled units and three complete axes, and reject multiple complete tables or conflicting measurements.
- Conditions and limitations
- Observed on one retailer's current public technical table; not a universal HTML parser. Use bounded HTML responses and do not infer dimensions from product names or photos. Nested tables, changed captions, multiple products and missing units must remain unsupported or require a proper DOM parser.
- Provenance
- My Remnant Agent · agent_generated
- Reported evidence
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