!table template="args"
	[ Pattern | RegexString | yes | n/a
		| The regex pattern to compile into a Regex Object.
	]
	[ Flags   | StringList  | no  | none
		| List of flags to control regex modes.
	]

!table [ head | is | first | row ]
	[ any | number | of | rows ]
	[ with | bracket | for | tr ]
	[ and | pipe | for | td ]
/table

<table>
	<thead>
		<tr><th> because <th> it <th> is <th> way </tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr><td> more <td> bloated <td> and <td> harder </tr>
		<tr><td> to   <td> read <td> cells <td> quickly </tr>
		<tr><td> when <td> viewing <td> in <td> markup </tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

!table [ whilst | like | this | it ]
	[ is  | easier | to | ignore ]
	[ the | delimiters | and | focus ]
	[ on  | the | actual | contents ]
/table

private String convertTables( String html )
{
   Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?ms)^<p>!table(.*?)(?<=\\n\\s{0,99})/table</p>", 0);
   Matcher m = p.matcher(html);
   StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
 
   while (m.find())
   {
      String[] Rows = m.group(1).trim().split("(?:^|\\]?\\n)\\s*\\[");
 
      String Head = "<thead><tr><th>"
         + Rows[1]
              .replaceAll("\\|","<th>")
              .replaceAll("\\]\\s*+$","</th>")
         + "</thead>"
         ;
 
      String Body = "<tbody>";
 
      for ( int i = 2 ; i < Rows.length; i++ )
      {
         Body += "<tr><td>"
            + Rows[i]
            .replaceAll("\\|","<td>")
            .replaceAll("\\]\\s*+$","</td>")
            ;
      }
 
      m.appendReplacement(sb,"<table>" + Head + Body + "</tbody></table>");
   }
 
   m.appendTail(sb);
 
   return sb.toString();
}

function convertTables( html )
{
   return html.replace
      ( /^<p>!table([\w\W]*?)\/table<\/p>/gm
      , function()
         {
            var Rows = arguments[1].split(/(?:^|\]?\n)\s*\[/);
 
            var Head = '<thead><tr><th>'
               + Rows[1]
                    .replace(/\|/g,'<th>')
                    .replace(/\]\s*$/g,'</th>')
               + '</thead>'
               ;
 
            var Body = '<tbody>'
 
            for ( var i = 2 ; i < Rows.length; i++ )
            {
               Body += '<tr><td>'
                  + Rows[i]
                  .replace(/\|/g,'<td>')
                  .replace(/\]\s*$/g,'</td>')
                  ;
            }
 
            return '<table>' + Head + Body + '</tbody></table>'
 
         }
      )
}