Properties of fo elements

The XSL working draft says:

NOTE: An inline-sequence is useful for specifying inherited properties.
For example, a sequence with a specification of a font-style property
may be constructed for an italic-emphasis phrase element in a block.

Immediately thereafter, it says:

An inline-sequence has no applicable properties.

This seems to be a common pattern. Is it correct to take this to mean
that a fo:inline-sequence element may have essentially any attribute I
care to assign to it, but that the properties represented by these
attributes only apply to the children of the inline-sequence? A DTD
would be very helpful here.

However this interpretation does seem to contradict this definition in
the glossary:

property 

     An attribute of a formatting-object.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold


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