[Maya-Kid]

table::lift_tables replaces each rendered table with a placeholder and grid() reads only row cells, so <caption> is lost.

Problem

On dev 6e09e58, html::fragment_to_markdown reads

<table><caption>Readings by well</caption>
<tr><th>Well</th><th>Depth</th></tr><tr><td>North</td><td>1200</td></tr></table>

as the bare table. Every HTML path lifts tables: .html files, feeds, linked articles, MinerU tables. Extraction's table rules take a table's subject and unit from its caption.

Change

• render_table writes the caption as a paragraph before the table, adding no colon. The chunker repeats it in every piece of a split table if at most 200 bytes or ending in a colon.
• Captions starting like a heading, list, quote or code fence (# of wells, ~~~ Notes) are escaped, as htmd does.
• page_to_markdown looks for the page title in htmd's text before tables return, so a lifted table never suppresses # title, on pages without a caption too: on dev a title row, header or cell repeating the title did, and every chunk lost the title breadcrumb.

Verification

• an_html_table_keeps_its_caption, a_caption_that_starts_like_markdown_stays_a_paragraph and a_caption_that_repeats_the_page_title_keeps_the_title_heading fail on dev with only the tests added; removing the escaping or the title fix fails only its test.
• Linux x86_64 container, Rust 1.98.1, PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector 0.8.6, Poppler, DB required, commit 24a0fe1 on dev 6e09e58: fmt and clippy clean (also on 1.99.1); cargo test --locked --workspace 1,577 passed, 0 failed, 6 ignored.
• Independent of A line break inside an HTML table cell keeps the words on either side apart #1281 and A lead-in ending in a full-width colon stays with its table at any length #1282; both merge cleanly.

Limits

• Readability (dom_smoothie 0.16) flattens a captioned table that is a page's main content, caption lost, as on dev.
• A title row repeating the caption appears twice.
• A caption over 200 bytes without a final colon is written once, and a lead-in above it no longer repeats in the table's pieces; one above several captioned tables now reaches only the first.

[WaylandYang]

Thank you. Writing the <caption> as its own paragraph without a colon is right: short captions go with every piece of the table, and long ones are written once instead of filling each piece. Checking the page title before the tables come back keeps a caption like "Pricing tiers" from removing # Pricing from every chunk's breadcrumb. Two small follow-ups: the title-row caption in render_rows has the same # of wells problem and could also use as_paragraph, and the escaping test could keep one input per branch (-/+/*, the two fences and 1./2) each share one). Merging.