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Wax 2 supports tables. The differences between what the XSweet pipeline currently produces and the format Wax 2 uses is not big:

• XSweet's <td>s have a style attribute; Wax does not
• XSweet's <p>s do not have a class but Wax's do
• XSweet doesn't wrap the table in a <tbody> tag; Wax does

XSweet output:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>One</p>
    </td>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Two</p>
    </td>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Three</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Four</p>
    </td>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Five</p>
    </td>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Six</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Seven</p>
    </td>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Eight</p>
    </td>
    <td style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0.5pt; vertical-align: top">
      <p>Nine</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Wax 2 table:

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">one</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">two</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">three</p>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">four</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">five</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">six</p>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">seven</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">eight</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p class="paragraph">ten</p>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

When an XSweet table like the first example is passed in, Wax appears to gloss over the differences seamlessly, adding class attributes and a body tag, and dropping the style information entirely. That is great news.

To complete table import into Wax 2, the only change need (that I can identify) is to pass tables through the final editoria-reduce.xsl step. Currently, that drops all table tags, leaving cell contents unchanged.