"propagates.style" question

["Jean Jordaan" <jean.jordaan@gmail.com>]

Hi all

Why does DocBook have

emphasis.propagates.style
para.propagates.style
phrase.propagates.style
entry.propagates.style

and not simply propagate.style for all elements that take role (and
why does it say that it's propagating style, and not role, anyway)? I
want to style a specific TABLE in the HTML output, and now I have to
resort to putting a 'role' attribute on the first preceding P element,
instead of the containing DIV element. Ideally I'd want to propagate
id, not role, but looks like that isn't possible either.

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