Convert 1-column table to list and vice versa

[hvbtup]

I always tell other developers to use the right kind of report item for a given task.
A "List" and "Table" with exactly one column are similar, but one should normally not use a one-column table for a list, because this is semantically different and may be treated differently by the emitter. A trivial example is the HTML emitter, but once a PDF emitter supports creating accessible PDFs this would also make a difference.

For another example, in my hvbtup/birt repository, I can optionally tell the Word emitter to not generate any additional layout elements for a List item (to avoid nested tables in the generated word document), thus such a List item is more or less just a for-loop.

So, sometimes I find myself converting a List item to a 1-column Table item or vice versa by editing the XML manually. This is error-prone.

Do other developers find themselves in the same situation?

Then it would be nice if the context menu for Table/List items would contain a "Convert to List item"/"Convert to Table item" entry.
The "Convert to List item" should be enabled only for 1-column tables.