jQuery Table Extraction Example

tableextract.js

var extractTable = function(table) {
  var output = [];
  $(table).find('tr').each(function(index, trow) {
    var row = [];
    $(trow).find('td').each(function(index, tcell) {
      row.push($(tcell).text());
    });  
  output.push(row.join(',') + ';');
  });
  return output.join('');
}