Index: HTML-TableExtract-2.15/lib/HTML/TableExtract.pm
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--- HTML-TableExtract-2.15.orig/lib/HTML/TableExtract.pm
+++ HTML-TableExtract-2.15/lib/HTML/TableExtract.pm
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ sub _reset_state {
   $self->{_counts}        = [];
   $self->{_in_a_table}    = 0;
   $self->{_parsing}       = 0;
-  $self->tree->delete_content() if TREE();
+  #$self->tree->delete_content() if TREE();
 }
 
 sub _emsg {