HTML table to contains list

[qzchenwl]

For file table.html

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <ul>
        <li>item1</li>
        <li>item2</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

pandoc.old -f html -t html table.html

<ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
</ul>

pandoc.new -f html -t html table.html

<table>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left"><ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

[jgm]

If you apply the patch, then do

pandoc -f html -t markdown | pandoc

on this input, you'll see why I had pPlain instead of block.

The problem is that we can't extract information about the widths of the table columns from the HTML. So we just set them all to 0, which pandoc interprets as meaning "just put the cells on one line and create a simple, not a multiline table".

I suppose that more general tables could be supported in HTML by assuming that all the columns are equal width, but that will often produce funny results.

[jgm]

The latest pandoc handles the original input as expected. Closing.