diff --git a/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/RichText.php b/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/RichText.php
index 312ec137..db985104 100644
--- a/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/RichText.php
+++ b/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/RichText.php
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ protected function getConverter()
         if ($this->converter === null) {
             $this->converter = new Aggregate(
                 [
-                    new ToRichTextPreNormalize([new ExpandingToRichText(), new ExpandingList(), new EmbedLinking()]),
+                    new ToRichTextPreNormalize([new ExpandingToRichText(), new ExpandingList(), new EmbedLinking(), new TableToRichText()]),
                     new Xslt(
                         __DIR__ . '/../Input/Resources/stylesheets/eZXml2Docbook.xsl',
                         $this->styleSheets
diff --git a/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/TableToRichText.php b/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/TableToRichText.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3122551b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/FieldType/XmlText/Converter/TableToRichText.php
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * This file is part of the eZ Platform XmlText Field Type package.
+ *
+ * @copyright Copyright (C) eZ Systems AS. All rights reserved.
+ * @license For full copyright and license information view LICENSE file distributed with this source code.
+ */
+namespace eZ\Publish\Core\FieldType\XmlText\Converter;
+
+use eZ\Publish\Core\FieldType\XmlText\Converter;
+use DOMDocument;
+use DOMElement;
+use DOMXPath;
+
+/**
+ * Class TableToRichText.
+ *
+ * In ezxmltext we may have empty rows like this:
+ * <table class="list" width="90%" border="0" ez-colums="3">
+ * <tr/>
+ *
+ * In richtext, such rows needs to include the <td> tags too
+ *  <informaltable class="list" width="90%">
+ *    <tbody>
+ *      <tr>
+ *        <td/>
+ *        <td/>
+ *        <td/>
+ *      </tr>
+ */
+class TableToRichText implements Converter
+{
+    /**
+     * Attribute used for storing number of table columns.
+     *
+     * @const string
+     */
+    const ATTRIBUTE_COLUMNS = 'ez-columns';
+
+    protected function getNumberOfColumns(DOMElement $tableElement)
+    {
+        // Let's first check if we have already calculated number of columns for this table
+        if ($tableElement->hasAttribute(self::ATTRIBUTE_COLUMNS)) {
+            $numberOfColumns = $tableElement->getAttribute(self::ATTRIBUTE_COLUMNS);
+        } else {
+            $numberOfColumns = 1;
+            foreach ($tableElement->childNodes as $tableRow) {
+                if ($tableRow->childNodes->length > $numberOfColumns) {
+                    $numberOfColumns = $tableRow->childNodes->length;
+                }
+            }
+            $tableElement->setAttribute(self::ATTRIBUTE_COLUMNS, $numberOfColumns);
+        }
+
+        return $numberOfColumns;
+    }
+
+    public function convert(DOMDocument $document)
+    {
+        $xpath = new DOMXPath($document);
+
+        // Get all empty table rows
+        $xpathExpression = '//table/tr[count(*) = 0]';
+
+        $emptyRows = $xpath->query($xpathExpression);
+        foreach ($emptyRows as $row) {
+            $tableElement = $row->parentNode;
+            $numberOfColumns = $this->getNumberOfColumns($tableElement);
+            for ($i = 0; $i < $numberOfColumns; ++$i) {
+                $row->appendChild($document->createElement('td'));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/lib/FieldType/Converter/_fixtures/richtext/input/091-table-empty-row.xml b/tests/lib/FieldType/Converter/_fixtures/richtext/input/091-table-empty-row.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aa984ed6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lib/FieldType/Converter/_fixtures/richtext/input/091-table-empty-row.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+
+<section
+        xmlns:image="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish3/image/"
+        xmlns:xhtml="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish3/xhtml/"
+        xmlns:custom="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish3/custom/">
+    <paragraph
+            xmlns:tmp="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish3/temporary/" ez-temporary="1">
+        <table class="list" width="90%" border="0" ez-colums="3">
+            <tr/>
+            <tr>
+                <td xhtml:width="0">
+                    <paragraph>
+                        <strong>Foobar1</strong>
+                    </paragraph>
+                </td>
+                <td xhtml:width="0">
+                    <paragraph>
+                        <strong>Foobar2</strong>
+                    </paragraph>
+                </td>
+                <td xhtml:width="0">
+                    <paragraph>
+                        <strong>Foobar3</strong>
+                    </paragraph>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+        </table>
+    </paragraph>
+</section>
diff --git a/tests/lib/FieldType/Converter/_fixtures/richtext/output/091-table-empty-row.xml b/tests/lib/FieldType/Converter/_fixtures/richtext/output/091-table-empty-row.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed1eb062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lib/FieldType/Converter/_fixtures/richtext/output/091-table-empty-row.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<section
+        xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+        xmlns:ezxhtml="http://ez.no/xmlns/ezpublish/docbook/xhtml"
+        xmlns:ezcustom="http://ez.no/xmlns/ezpublish/docbook/custom" version="5.0-variant ezpublish-1.0">
+  <informaltable class="list" width="90%">
+    <tbody>
+      <tr>
+        <td/>
+        <td/>
+        <td/>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td ezxhtml:width="0">
+          <para>
+            <emphasis role="strong">Foobar1</emphasis>
+          </para>
+        </td>
+        <td ezxhtml:width="0">
+          <para>
+            <emphasis role="strong">Foobar2</emphasis>
+          </para>
+        </td>
+        <td ezxhtml:width="0">
+          <para>
+            <emphasis role="strong">Foobar3</emphasis>
+          </para>
+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </tbody>
+  </informaltable>
+</section>
+
+