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more on scratchspaces: https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Scratch.jl

Would want to return all of the following in a parseable format: - table name - table number if available - select/ultimate - age - duration Also, the function would...

This now would have a lot more utility since all tables are bundled and parse-able. The return data could be an array of named tuples.

Also, add a keyword argument for tolerance (abs and rel) - maybe just perform the comparison with `isapprox`

Yea, I was worried about tables like this. Have you seen anything in the XML metadata that would suggest standard ways of handling irregular tables? Do you have a sense...

The SOA website indicates maybe there's about 10 table types: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/711879/135008642-ae251275-8b8d-43de-92b7-a44d66ae1c4b.png)

Thank you for progressing this. Some thoughts/ideas: - I'm not sure what it would be, but if there were a better data format than XTBML (JSON, HDF5, other?) then I...

Here's an approach to this issue that doesn't require any modification to the package: https://github.com/JuliaActuary/MortalityTables.jl#example-scaling-and-capping-a-table

Go for it!