remove_tables rule breaks content in Switch Weekly

[sclu1034]

The remove_tables rule is documented as "keeping the content inside".
However, when I try to use it with Switch Weekly, it does remove content. Most notably, the intro text is missing.

I'm using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to turn the emails into an RSS feed. The table, including the text, does show up when I remove the rewrite rule.

[fguillot]

Can you share the feed URL or copy and paste the feed XML content in the GitHub issue?

[sclu1034]

Feed XML: https://gist.github.com/sclu1034/7eeec68d584374bf3b0c40fbc6fadf3e

Identifiers for kill-the-newsletter have been removed, since they are personalized.

[fguillot]

However, when I try to use it with Switch Weekly, it does remove content. Most notably, the intro text is missing.

You are referring to the content in the nested table?

After rewrite:

Original:

[sclu1034]

After finding a way to compare the two versions side-by-side now, I realized that the content doesn't actually get removed completely, but instead re-arranged.

The header above the image, and paragraph from below the image move to the very bottom. The "Upcoming Releases" section gets mixed with "Quick Links".

And because "Upcoming Releases" actually uses tables "normally", it also breaks in such a way that the list isn't grouped by date anymore.

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So I guess there are two issues:

• nested tables don't get inserted where they should be
• remove_tables needs an optional parameter that allows excluding based on a selector, when a "normal" table needs to be kept