Shell – Converting html table into ncurses-like ascii table

I have some documentation in an html table. I want to convert the table to an ascii table, like you see when you get a mysql command line result back, like this:

+------------+------------+
| header     | header     |
+------------+------------+
| cell data  | cell data  |
+------------+------------+
| cell data  | cell data  |
+------------+------------+

… so I can include it in some code comments.

How could I do this easily? I was thinking piping the output of lynx into a file, but lynx doesn't put ascii borders around tables 😛

I also want to control cell width, so that the content cells don't spill outside the accepted screen width of the code.