For sure, I think in the 2008 Google Talk by Carsten Dominik (org mode creator) his host makes a comment from the back of the room that he has a use case(among others) of creating html tables in org mode because its so easy. Org mode has so much functionality hooked in to plaintext structures it is ridiculous. Tab and S-Tab alone do so much work in an org mode workflow, it is things like this that make it hard for for me to understand what good an external parser for org mode would do. Org mode is incredibly feature rich for authoring.
