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well, if you're not nesting tables, then you could just do the same thing with {row} and {cell} - if they aren't paired up, don't parse the orphan. And if {table} isn't nested, then you'd never have nested {row}s or {cell}s.

Without nesting, though, colspan & rowspan couldn't be "faked" by just table/row/cell. But perhaps it'd work just to pass the 'problem' on to HTML - i.e put in the colspan rowspan info if the writingML user says so and leave it up to them to figure it out?

LP