Regarding your comment on xsl-editors

Thank you for your comment to [email protected] archived at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xsl-editors/2002JanMar/0121

The XSL WG is going through the comments at this time, developing
errata and lists of items to consider for a future version of XSL.

The following is our disposition of your above comment:

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>Could you please clarify for me the role of properties defined on
>elements of the layout-master-set subtree in inheritance within
>page-sequences.  For example, numerous properties apply to
>fo:simple-page-master and the various regions which are not exclusive to
>the layout-master-set.  These properties seem, in general, not to be
>inherited, but to support the  `inherit' keyword.  When such properties
>occur in an fo:flow with the `inherit' specifier, in the absence of any
>specification in the line of descent from fo:root to the element in the
>fo tree, but with a specified value on the relevant region-body, is the
>computed value derived from the initial value or from the value
>specified on fo:region-body?


Disposition: Explanation of XSL spec

It is derived from the value specified on fo:region-body. 


>When properties not directly applicable to the layout-master-set and its
>children are specified on one of those children which later becomes
>involved in the page generation for a flow, are those properties
>inherited, of available for `inherit' specification, by children of the
>flow?


Disposition: Explanation of XSL spec

No. 

>When the from-nearest-specified-value function is invoked within a flow,
>are the properties specified on the page master elements for the current
>page also available to the function? "The value returned is that for the
>closest ancestor of the formatting object for which the expression is
>evaluated on which there is an assignment of the property in the XML
>result tree in the fo namespace."


Disposition: Explanation of XSL spec

No. 
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Paul Grosso for the XSL FO Subgroup of the XSL WG