RE: DOM Level 3 Events module, question and wording

> > I mean that users can initialize an event with a namespaceURI and an
> > eventType, but an implementation does not need to know the
> > namespaceURI to create the object?
>
> background:
> XML Events introduced namespaces for event types, ie the type of an
> event is {"http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events", "DOMActivate"} instead of
> "DOMActivate". There is currently a proposal to include this mechanism
> in DOM Level 3 Events however it is not clear if it is going to remain
> in XML Events, this explains why the draft is currently on hold.
>
> The user creates an object of type UIEvent:
> DocumentEvent.createEvent("UIEvents") and then initialize with the
> appropriate parameters ("http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events",
> "DOMActivate", ...)


That does not address my point. My issue is that I think an implementation
might need the namespace URI in order to *instanciate* the event and not
only at the initialization time.


Thierry.