Empty SimpleTable contains empty caption and empty TableBody

[not-my-profile]

Explain the problem.

$ echo '<div></div>' | pandoc -L <(echo 'function Div(_) return {pandoc.Table({long={}}, {}, {{}, {}}, {}, {{}, {}}, {})} end')          
<table>

</table>
$ echo '<div></div>' | pandoc -L <(echo 'function Div(_) return {pandoc.utils.from_simple_table(pandoc.SimpleTable({}, {}, {}, {}, {}))} end')
<table>
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>

Notice how the SimpleTable API results in an empty caption and an empty tbody. I would expect there to be some checks to omit these if they are empty.

Pandoc version?
pandoc 2.16.2 on Linux

[tarleb]

Thanks for the report.