[subbu@earth:~/work/wmf/parsoid] cat /tmp/wt {| |- {| | x |} a b c [subbu@earth:~/work/wmf/parsoid] parse.js --normalize=parsoid < /tmp/wt <table> <tbody> <tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr> </tbody> </table> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>x</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>a b c</p>
Unclosed tables are not that uncommon as a syntactical error category. So, we should probably try to fix this.