Export Tables from Pages to Numbers with AppleScript?

Question

I've hit a stumbling block while trying to use AppleScript to remove a table from pages and paste it into Numbers.
I've found no way to directly identify the table in the document to copy for pasting into Numbers and I've been unable to remove the other information from the document to isolate the table for a select all command.
The easiest thing I can think of is a AppleScript to remove the first set of characters before the table or to explicitly extract tables only from the document.
I've tried all manners of AppleScripts and I can't seem to get it to work. None of the AppleScript text selection commands work to remove the information other than the table.

Answer 1

Try selecting the whole of the contents of the document and then running:
tell app "Pages"
selection
end tell
This will return a list of the selected objects, amongst which you should see something like: table 1 of body text of document id 15373020 of application "Pages"
With that data you should be able to select just that item:
select table 1 of body text of document id 15373020 of application "Pages"
Obviously that's just an example. If you were scripting this, you would most likely work through the list filtering only those objects you want to work with - the tables in this case.