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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 <code>Event</code> object of a type supported by the
* implementation. If the feature "Events" is supported by the
* <code>Document</code> object, the <code>DocumentEvent</code> interface
* must be implemented on the same object.
* Note that JSR 280 does not support the 3.0 Events feature, but the object
* returned to a 2.0 Events request will include the DocumentEvent interface
* implementation.
* <p>See also the
* <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20060413'>
* Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification</a>.
*
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public interface DocumentEvent {
/**
* Create an Event.
*
* @param eventType The <code>eventType</code> parameter specifies the
* name of the DOM Events interface to be supported by the created
* event object, e.g. <code>"Event"</code>, <code>"MouseEvent"</code>,
* <code>"MutationEvent"</code> and so on. If the <code>Event</code>
* is to be dispatched via the <code>EventTarget.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 invoke
* <code>DocumentEvent.createEvent("UIEvent")</code>. The
* <code>UIEvent.initUIEventNS()</code> method could then be called on
* the newly created <code>UIEvent</code> object to set the specific
* type of user interface event to be dispatched, DOMActivate for
* example, and set its context information, e.g.
* <code>UIEvent.detail</code> in this example.
* <p><b>Note:</b> For backward compatibility reason, "UIEvents",
* "MouseEvents", "MutationEvents", and "HTMLEvents" feature names are
* valid values for the parameter <code>eventType</code> and represent
* respectively the interfaces "UIEvent", "MouseEvent",
* "MutationEvent", and "Event".
* <p><b>Note:</b> JSR 280 follows the DOM 3 rule for <code>Event.type</code>
* and considers it to be case-sensitive. This differs from DOM 2, which
* considers it to be case-insensitive.
* @return The newly created event object.
* @exception DOMException
* NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the implementation does not support the
* <code>Event</code> interface requested.
*/
public Event createEvent(String eventType)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Test if the implementation can generate events of a specified type.
* @param namespaceURI Specifies the <code>Event.namespaceURI</code> of
* the event, may be null.
* @param type Specifies the <code>Event.type</code> of the event.
* @return <code>true</code> if the implementation can generate and
* dispatch this event type, <code>false</code> otherwise.
*
* @since DOM Level 3
*/
public boolean canDispatch(String namespaceURI, String type);
}