hint 1 - my note about Table structure (might be inaccurate w/ 2.18):
    https://gist.github.com/K4zuki/04e1e1af2fcf06db1a6ea640aa8feadd 
hint 2 - my implementation in a filter (https://github.com/pandocker/pandocker-lua-filters/blob/master/lua/csv2table.lua):
1. prepare a minimum table markdown text as a local variable
2. let pandoc convert the text, then extract Table object
```lua
local table_template = [==[
| table |
|-------|
| cell |

Table: caption
]==]

local my_table = pandoc.read(table_template, "markdown").blocks[1]
```
3. clone the object and replace the contents

2022年5月26日木曜日 18:06:06 UTC+9 Bastien Dumont:
The constructors don't take tables as their argument, but discrete values. I have not found the definition of the constructors in the official documentation, but you can look into this filter to see how they work: https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/blob/master/list-table/list-table.lua

Le Thursday 26 May 2022 à 01:53:39AM, msprev a écrit :
> This creates the following structure -- all ok, except the table body, which is
> empty ('[]'), and I cannot get it to appear. Any suggestions on what I'm doing
> wrong would be gratefully received.
>
> ```
> Table
> ( "" , [] , [] )
> (Caption Nothing [])
> [ ( AlignLeft , ColWidthDefault )
> , ( AlignDefault , ColWidthDefault )
> ]
> (TableHead ( "" , [] , [] ) [])
> []
> (TableFoot ( "" , [] , [] ) [])
> ```
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 12:48:06 PM UTC+1 msprev wrote:
>
> I've been struggling to get my head around handling tables with Lua in
> pandoc 2.18. I'm trying to write a minimal working example to create a
> table as I can't seem to find one online. The code below does create a
> table, but with any empty table body and I can't figure out how to get the
> body to appear. Can anyone help tell me what has gone wrong here?
>
> BTW, I tried to call the pandoc.TableBody() constructor, but that throws an
> error as it doesn't seem to be defined ("attempt to call a nil value (field
> 'TableBody')")
>
> ```
> local caption = {long = {}}
> local colspecs = {{pandoc.AlignLeft, pandoc.ColWidthDefault},
> {pandoc.AlignDefault, pandoc.ColWidthDefault}}
> local head = pandoc.TableHead()
> local cell1contents = { pandoc.Plain({pandoc.Str("cell1")}) }
> local cell2contents = { pandoc.Plain({pandoc.Str("cell2")}) }
> local cell1 = { alignment=pandoc.AlignDefault, contents=cell1contents,
> col_span=1, row_span=1 }
> local cell2 = { alignment=pandoc.AlignDefault, contents=cell2contents,
> col_span=1, row_span=1 }
> local row1 = { cells={pandoc.Cell(cell1), pandoc.Cell(cell2)} }
> local rows = { pandoc.Row(row1) }
> local bodies = { body=rows, head={}, row_head_columns=0 }
> local foot = pandoc.TableFoot()
> local mytable = pandoc.Table(caption, colspecs, head, bodies, foot)
> table.insert(doc.blocks, mytable)
> ```
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