wicket.markup
Class MarkupElement

java.lang.Object
  wicket.markup.MarkupElement

Direct Known Subclasses:

ComponentTag, RawMarkup, XmlTag

public abstract class MarkupElement
extends java.lang.Object

Base class for different kinds of markup elements. Markup elements are held in a Markup container object.

Wicket divides markup like (x)html, wml etc. into two types of MarkupElements:

• ComponentTag, which represents a "significant" markup tag (meaning that the tag has some meaning to Wicket)
• RawMarkup, which is a section of unparsed markup having no meaning to Wicket.

Author:

Jonathan Locke

See Also:

Markup, RawMarkup, ComponentTag

Constructor Summary

MarkupElement()
Constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	closes(MarkupElement open) Gets whether this element closes the given element.
abstract java.lang.CharSequence	toCharSequence()
abstract java.lang.String	toUserDebugString() Gets a string represenetation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MarkupElement

public MarkupElement()

Constructor.

Method Detail

closes

public boolean closes(MarkupElement open)

Gets whether this element closes the given element.

Parameters:

open - The open tag

Returns:

True if this markup element closes the given open tag

toCharSequence

public abstract java.lang.CharSequence toCharSequence()

Returns:

Gets the charseqence representation of this element

toUserDebugString

public abstract java.lang.String toUserDebugString()

Gets a string represenetation.

Returns:

A string representation suitable for displaying to the user when something goes wrong.