How to use \begin{enumerate} in tabular without using p{size}

Question

I'd like to generate a table, using tabular, that looks like this

+-----------------+---------------+
|    header1      |    header2    | <--- header, centered
|1. djkfjsdalfkj  |1. djhfjdhf    |
|2. asdfdsjkfasd  |2. sadhfdsj    | <--- enumeration list
+----------------+----------------+
     .
     .
     .
rest of table like the above

But I do not want to use paragraph option to tabular, since then I would have to specify a size for the width. I do not want to do this, since I'll process this .tex file with latex2html (l2h), and I do not want the web page to have fixed width in the browser. (I do not know how big a window there will be), and I'd like the table to resize with the window size automatically.

Is there a way to do it, using tabular, and just using 'c'?

(I need to stay with tabular since I know l2h supports this. If I go to fancy table packages, it might not work).

The problem is I can't add \begin{enumerate} when I use 'c'. Hence this does not work:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}\hline

header1
\begin{enumerate}
\item dhfkjdshafkjds
\item hfdsjkhdsjkafsdaf
\end{enumerate}
&
header2
\begin{enumerate}
\item dhfkjdshafkjds
\item hfdsjkhdsjkafsdaf
\end{enumerate}

\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

But if I replace {|c|c|} above by {|p{4in}|p{4in}|} then it work since one can use \begin{enumerate} in a paragraph.

I looked at the examples here http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables and do not see how to do it.

Question is: How to use enumeration list in tabular without using p{size}

thanks

update: As I mentioned above, I'd like the solution to only use tabular. I am using latex2html to process the latex document to convert to HTML. And l2h does not support all the latex packages.

Warning: No implementation found for package: tabularx.
Warning: No implementation found for package: paralist..

This is the HTML page I get from running the solution below on latex2html

Answer 1

There are many solutions on the web, I stole this one from here: http://www.komascript.de/node/300

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{paralist}
\newcommand*{\sii}{\setdefaultleftmargin{1em}{1em}{1em}{1em}{1em}{1em}}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\storeenum}{%
  \expandafter\xdef\csname
  stored@\@enumctr\endcsname{\expandafter\the\value{\@enumctr}}%
}%
\newcommand*{\restoreenum}{%
  \setcounter{\@enumctr}{\csname stored@\@enumctr\endcsname}%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|>{\sii}X|>{\sii}X|}
  \hline
  \begin{compactenum}
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
    \storeenum
  \end{compactenum} &
  \begin{compactenum}
    \restoreenum
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
    \storeenum
  \end{compactenum}\\
  \hline
  \begin{compactenum}
    \restoreenum
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
    \storeenum
  \end{compactenum} &
  \begin{compactenum}
    \restoreenum
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
  \item ITEM
  \end{compactenum}\\
  \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}