Supporting HTML table structure

[TelosPO]

Can the validator read a HTML table structure when expecting Multi-line Markup and string?

[nikitawootten-nist]

It can! The Markup Multi-line datatype is described in detail on the metaschema syntax page, which includes a section on tables.

In short,

• The JSON version of Markup Multi-Line is nominally validated against a subset of the CommonMark spec, with specific extensions for things like tables which are not a part of the core specification.
• The XML version of Markup Multi-Line is represented as a subset of HTML that maps cleanly to CommonMark.
• Content converters such as liboscal-java are responsible for mapping between the JSON's CommonMark representation and the XML's HTML subset.
• Commonmark allows for insertion of the same subset of HTML elements (like <table>), meaning that you can insert an HTML table into either a JSON or XML document. When using inline HTML in Markdown, you will lose the conversion guarantees between XML<->JSON/YAML.