Okay,thanks for the ideas. I realise that the Pod spec doesn't include tables, but figured it might be a common enough problem that someone might have written a way to achieve them. Was wondering if there was anything obvious available, but there doesn't seem to be. No problem - I'll write a quick perl script myself to pre-process the pod file and extract any tables (written in some XML flavour), parse them, and then reinsert them into the pod doc as a =for block in the output format I'm looking for (html, latex, or plaintext, at present).

Thanks for your time Eric