Xara's table is a poor table implementation.

I have used tables written in, well, anything and everything, but mostly used an HTML editor for use in a placeholder. Along with the CSS for styling the elements. But placeholders themselves, especially for tables, is a kludge in itself.

Xara needs to implement a standard table widget* that works like most people expect a table to work (like Serif products). It can then be useful for print as well as web work.

*By widget, I mean a programming add-in that handles tables regardless of the intent. I have added table widgets to applications before and it isn't a big deal, at least for the input, styling and math functions as regards eventual print. How that output would be output for web work I have no idea. But I suspect these widgets are also readily available.