Hi Mats, let me try to explain what Chris and I see here that others don't - may it be there or not ;)
You can of course do everything with panels that could be done with multiple abstract sections (may they be named wicket:child or wicket:abstract). However, if this is the only argument, you wouldn't need markup inheritance at all! The proposed change is just an extension of exactly this markup inheritance concept (that everybody loves) to make it even more powerful than it already is. I was quite new to wicket (which I still am) and came across a situation where I wanted to use two abstract sections: one for a sub-navigation that was common for several pages in a section and one for the actual content. For me, as a wicket newbie, it would have been most natural to use markup inheritance to solve this problem. Using abstract methods, while being a nice solution (workaround?), didn't come to my mind at once, nor did I find it somewhere in the docs. imho, there are two possible solution to this problem: 1. promote using abstract methods for this in the docs as the wicket-way of doing it 2. extend the current markup inheritance mechanism (which I tried to do with my patch/prototype) -- stefan Mats Norén-2 wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007 11:31 AM, Mats Norén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hmm...I'm interested in seeing the difference as well. I would love to >> get it but right now I don't. >> >> Chris Colman wrote: >> "This new feature, or extension of the exiting feature, allows more than >> one section of markup to be "specialized" by derived (extended) markups >> whereas currently wicket only supports the deferred >> definition/implementation of a single markup section in any page. In >> other words we want to make a powerful feature even more powerful." >> >> Is the above statement really true considering that by adding abstract >> methods to your page you defer the creation of the markup in just the >> same way as the new proposed solution? >> >> BasePage.java >> >> public BasePage() { >> addAbstract1("abstractId1"); >> addAbstract2("abstractId2); >> } >> >> public abstract addAbstract1(String abstractId1); >> public abstract addAbstract2(String abstractId2); > > A little typo here..I meant: > > public BasePage() { > add(addAbstract1("abstractId1")); > add(addAbstract2("abstractId2)); > } > > public abstract Component addAbstract1(String abstractId1); > public abstract Component addAbstract2(String abstractId2); > > /Mats > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----- ------- Stefan Fußenegger http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com // looking for a nicer domain ;) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Multiple-%3Cwicket%3Achild--%3E-tags-on-a-single-base-page--tf4738673.html#a13626055 Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]