Cleaning output using awk

I have some small problem with my code.

data.html

                        <TD class="statuscol2">c</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol3">18</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol4"><SPAN TITLE="#04">test4</SPAN></TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol5">OFF</TD>

awk '/col2/ {
        for (i=1; i<=4; i++)
                {
                gsub(/^[ \t]+|<[^>]*>/, "");
                printf "%s,", $0;
                getline
        }
        print ""
}' data.html
c,18,test4,OFF,

This works fine, but sometimes there are more than one data filed in one line like this.

data.html

                        <TD class="statuscol2">c</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol3">18</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol4"><SPAN TITLE="#04">test4</SPAN></TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol5">OFF</TD><br>id8<br>

This gives out c,18,test4,OFFid8,
How do I only get first hit one the line and get c,18,test4,OFF,

For extracting all tag data:

awk -F'[<>]' ' {
        for ( i = 3; i <= NF; i += 2 )
        {
                if ( $i != "" )
                        printf "%s,", $i
        }
} END {
        printf "\n"
} ' data.html

For extracting just first tag data:

awk -F'[<>]' ' {
        for ( i = 3; i <= NF; i += 2 )
        {
                if ( $i != "" && f == 0)
                {
                        f = 1
                        printf "%s,", $i
                }
        }
        f = 0
} END {
        printf "\n"
} ' data.html

It worked for the example, but not for the whole data.
This is a repetitive task that will give many lines.
I do search for col2 as a trigger to start. Then I need f.eks only next 10 lines.

Here line 5 give extra data I do not need.

                <TR class="c">
                        <TD class="statuscol1">no</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol2">c</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol3">17</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol4"><SPAN TITLE="#104">status</SPAN></TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol5"><a href="#" class="tooltip">ON<span>host<br>made<br></span></a></TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol6">ON</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol7">3342</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol8">37397</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol9"><SPAN TITLE="">intra</SPAN></TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol10">20.03.13  11:01:48</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol11">07:08:13</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol12">073D</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol13">Status42</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol14">by local</TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol15"><SPAN CLASS="idlesec_normal">00:00:05</SPAN></TD>
                        <TD class="statuscol16">OK</TD>
                </TR>

eks output

c,17,status,ON,ON,3342,37397,intra,20.03.13  11:01:48,

I get:

c,17,status,ONhostmade,ON,3342,37397,intra,20.03.13  11:01:48,

My 2nd suggestion should work with some minor changes:

awk -F'[<>]' ' /col2/ {
        cf = 1
} cf == 1 && c <= 8 {
        ++c
        for ( i = 3; i <= NF; i += 2 )
        {
                if ( $i != "" && f == 0 )
                {
                        f = 1
                        printf "%s,", $i
                }
        }
        f = 0
} c == 9 {
        printf "\n"
        cf = 0
        c  = 0
} ' data.html

Works perfectly, thanks