import type { ItemState } from '@redocly/theme/core/types';
/**
 * Removes separators marked with `hideWhenEmpty` (set by OpenAPI sidebar
 * generation) whose section is empty — i.e. the separator has no non-separator
 * sibling before the next separator or the end of the array. RBAC filtering and
 * empty-group pruning already ran server-side, so an empty section here means
 * the item immediately after the separator is another separator or absent.
 *
 * Authored separators carry no `hideWhenEmpty` flag and are always kept,
 * including deliberate consecutive separators.
 */
export declare function hideEmptyFlaggedSeparators(items: ItemState[]): ItemState[];
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