Best way to structure Cell contents

Hi All,
OK, my last question for the week, and if I can get my head around this, I'd say I had a productive week.
So, I am working on establishing a basic EDD to be used for making and converting some large documents, many which contain a plethora of tables.
Many of the tables are for stylized elements like notes, warnings, etc. Also, it is not unusual to have bulleted lists inside the tables.
I am wondering, do you think I should require that text inside table cells be wrapped in some sort of "paragraph" element? As opposed to allowing it to be wrapped directly in the cell as the default TEXT?
I'm sure it can be done either way, but wondering if there is a best practice on this. Seems like if it was in a general "paragraph" element, it would make it easier to drag stuff in and out of tables or from one table to another, etc. in structured view. Plus, I'm sure I'll need to wrap stuff as part of the conversion process. But is there a good reason to not do that...?
Thanks!
Darren

Darren,
In my recent structures I always had tow types of tables: table an simpletable. In teh simpletable structure I allowed no blocklevel elements in the cells, limiting the content to (<TEXT> | indexterm | strong | ... )*. In the regular tables I do not allow simple text content, I require at least a para (or similar block level elements).
It is my believe that it helps users if elements are either block or inline. It makes everyones live just harder if you have many places where the user is allowed to go either way.
- Michael

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