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> if you omit unnecessary closing tags

As someone who had written lots of XHTML in the past, not having closing tags makes my eyes twitch like Scrat in Ice Age. I even occasionally write `<br>` like `<br/>` out of habit.

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Fair point, though /DT and /DD are also optional just like /TH, /TD and /TR are. So in effect, def…scription list could structurally save you one TR for each entry and two "BLE"s:

    <table><tr><th>Term 1<td>Definition 1
           <tr><th>Term 2<td>Definition 2
    </table>
    <dl><dt>Term 1<dd>Definition 1
        <dt>Term 2<dd>Definition 2
    </dl>
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Isn't markdown table just a bunch of | ?
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That's the problem.
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most specifically the problem is that markdown tables don't allow breaking the table row in multiple lines

but then you can always use HTML tables in markdown and Pandoc transforms it just fine

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<br> has worked fine whenever I’ve needed line breaking in markdown tables
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I think they mean breaking the line in the markup, not the output
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They mean in the Markdown code, not in the output.
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Every markdown implementation is supposed to allow inline HTML.
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