DOCBOOK: how global is the "override" attribute on a <listitem>

in the online version of docbook TDG, the example shown for
<itemizedlist> uses a mark attribute of "opencircle", but overrides
this mark with the first <listitem> having an override attribute
of bullet.

  the formatted output shown immediately below shows *all* bullets,
and yet the documentation for <listitem> claims that the override
attribute spceifies the keyword for only *this* specific listitem
element, not the entire list, which seems to disagree with what is
shown under <itemizedlist>.

  comments?

rday

Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI
Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC
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