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P html tag with no content after is not removed

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the Test.java example and the google-java-format command shown in the report. Trace the Javadoc paragraph formatting behavior for a trailing empty

tag, then add coverage and confirm that the empty tag is removed without changing other paragraph formatting.

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Description

It will be awesome to remove such empty <p> tags. At least there is defenetely no text after it.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html#s7.1.2-javadoc-paragraphs

Each paragraph except the first has <p> immediately before the first word, with no space after it.

$ cat Test.java 
public class Test {
  /**
   * The client's first name.
   *
   * <p>
   */
  public String thirdName;
}

$ java -jar google-java-format-1.23.0-all-deps.jar Test.java > TestUpdated.java

$ diff -u Test.java TestUpdated.java 
$ 
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