[Wikipedia-l] Table markup

[Gutza]

Magnus Manske wrote:

> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>
>> It's not only that - `|' becomes magical not only at the begining of 
>> line (what
>> would be relatively harmless), but also inside it. 
>
>
> It will be only magical if
> * it is used inside a table and
> * if a '|' is the first char at the beginning of the line
> Or a "!", as of latest (yes, <th> has finally arrived!)
>
> The only use of '|' I can think of in text (not counting links, they 
> won't be affected) is for ASCII drawings, and for these, the line 
> always starts with a blank anyway.
>
>> Magnus said he's going to put it live on all pedias.
>> That's definitely the time for giving exact description.
>
>
> I put one up at
> http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_table_markup

On a side note, this should probably also be supported in a 
fully-flexible implementation:

{|
! Header1 || Cell1
|-
! Header2 || Cell2
|}

Gutza