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+/*
+ * 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 org.w3c.dom.events;
+
+import 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>
+ * @exception DOMException
+ * NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the implementation does not support the
+ * type of <code>Event</code> interface requested
+ */
+ public Event createEvent(String eventType)
+ throws DOMException;
+
+}