I didn't see an answer for this (rather old) message come through.

Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I have a style sheet with the following rule, and this is the only rule
> in the whole style sheet:
> 
> <xsl:template match ="/">
>     <fo:page-sequence font-family="kidnap">
>         <xsl:process-children>
>     </fo:page-sequence >
> <xsl:template>
> 
> Which I apply to this document
> 
> <xdoc>
>     This should be in the kidnap font
>     <para>But what font is this in?</para>
> </xdoc>
> 
> Will the whole document be in 'kidnap' font, or just the text-node children
> of the root element?

This isn't really a question about inheritance of *rules*, but about
inheritance of formatting properties in the fo: namespace. Nevertheless,
the answer is yes, the paragraph will have the kidnap font. Here's what
the spec. says about that property:

font-family (DSSSL:font-family-name, CSS:-same-) 
= font-name or font-name-list

Inherited, Initial = any

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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