From bdfce7074c7040f067a7b6379f5dead25c59dee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Foppiano <luca@foppiano.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:20:06 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] simplify

---
 .../src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java    | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java
index 08fea642fa..d273fb02f1 100644
--- a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java
+++ b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/data/Table.java
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ public String toTEI(GrobidAnalysisConfig config, Document doc, TEIFormatter form
             }
 
             if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(labeledNote) ) {
-                Element p = null;
+                Element p = teiElement("p");
                 TaggingTokenClusteror clusteror = new TaggingTokenClusteror(GrobidModels.FULLTEXT, labeledNote, noteLayoutTokens);
                 List<TaggingTokenCluster> clusters = clusteror.cluster();                
                 for (TaggingTokenCluster cluster : clusters) {
@@ -197,10 +197,6 @@ public String toTEI(GrobidAnalysisConfig config, Document doc, TEIFormatter form
                     //String clusterContent = LayoutTokensUtil.normalizeText(cluster.concatTokens());
                     String clusterContent = LayoutTokensUtil.normalizeDehyphenizeText(cluster.concatTokens());
                     if (clusterLabel.equals(TaggingLabels.CITATION_MARKER)) {
-                        if (p == null) {
-                            LOGGER.warn("Problem when serializing TEI fragment for table note, there is a reference at the beginning of the sentence. ");
-                            p = teiElement("p");
-                        }
                         try {
                             List<Node> refNodes = formatter.markReferencesTEILuceneBased(
                                     cluster.concatTokens(),
@@ -217,9 +213,7 @@ public String toTEI(GrobidAnalysisConfig config, Document doc, TEIFormatter form
                             LOGGER.warn("Problem when serializing TEI fragment for table note", e);
                         }
                     } else {
-                        if (p == null) {
-                            p = teiElement("p");
-                        } else if (isNewParagraph(clusterLabel, p)) {
+                        if (p.getChildCount() > 0 && isNewParagraph(clusterLabel, p)) {
                             noteNode.appendChild(p);
                             p = teiElement("p");
                         }
@@ -231,7 +225,7 @@ public String toTEI(GrobidAnalysisConfig config, Document doc, TEIFormatter form
                         formatter.segmentIntoSentences(noteNode, this.noteLayoutTokens, config, doc.getLanguage(), doc.getPDFAnnotations());
                     }
                 }
-                if (p != null && p.getChildCount() > 0) {
+                if (p.getChildCount() > 0) {
                     noteNode.appendChild(p);
                 }
             } else {