If you write a macro and annotate the execute method with the RequiresFormat annotation, you can control the form of the body you receive.

@RequiresFormat(value = Format.Storage)
public String execute(Map<String, String> parameters, String body, ConversionContext context) throws MacroExecutionException
  { ... }

• If you use Format.Storage you are meant to get the unprocessed, raw, database format of the page.
• This mostly works, until there are tables in the body. If there are tables in the body they appear to be transformed (with TableStylingElementTransformer).

If your body contains:

<table><th><td></td></th></table>

The macro will receive this as the storage format (which is wrong):

<table class="confluenceTable"><th class="confluenceTh"><td class="confluenceTd"></td></th></table>

It should receive the storage format.