content: /*
   * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
   * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
   * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
   * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
   * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
   * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
   * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
   * PURPOSE.
   * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
   */
  
  package mf.org.w3c.dom.events;
  
  import mf.org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
  
  /**
   * The <code>DocumentEvent</code> interface provides a mechanism by which the
   * user can create an Event of a type supported by the implementation. It is
   * expected that the <code>DocumentEvent</code> interface will be
   * implemented on the same object which implements the <code>Document</code>
   * interface in an implementation which supports the Event model.
   * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events Specification</a>.
   *
   * @since DOM Level 2
   */
  public interface DocumentEvent {
      /**
       * @param eventType The <code>eventType</code> parameter specifies the
       *                  type of <code>Event</code> interface to be created. If the
       *                  <code>Event</code> interface specified is supported by the
       *                  implementation this method will return a new <code>Event</code> of
       *                  the interface type requested. If the <code>Event</code> is to be
       *                  dispatched via the <code>dispatchEvent</code> method the
       *                  appropriate event init method must be called after creation in
       *                  order to initialize the <code>Event</code>'s values. As an example,
       *                  a user wishing to synthesize some kind of <code>UIEvent</code>
       *                  would call <code>createEvent</code> with the parameter "UIEvents".
       *                  The <code>initUIEvent</code> method could then be called on the
       *                  newly created <code>UIEvent</code> to set the specific type of
       *                  UIEvent to be dispatched and set its context information.The
       *                  <code>createEvent</code> method is used in creating
       *                  <code>Event</code>s when it is either inconvenient or unnecessary
       *                  for the user to create an <code>Event</code> themselves. In cases
       *                  where the implementation provided <code>Event</code> is
       *                  insufficient, users may supply their own <code>Event</code>
       *                  implementations for use with the <code>dispatchEvent</code> method.
       * @return The newly created <code>Event</code>
       * @throws DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the implementation does not support the
       *                      type of <code>Event</code> interface requested
       */
      Event createEvent(String eventType)
              throws DOMException;
  
  }
  