ordering of effects with enable-background:new and filter on the same element

Context: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundImage

The text says "Find the element Ai with the smallest subscript i (including
A0=E) for which the 'enable-background' property has the value new." So that
seems to mean that the search for the nearest enclosing element with
enable-background:new starts with the current element. So if an element has
enable-background:new and a 'filter', then usage of "BackgroundImage" within
the filter will get a transparent black background. Is this intentional? It
seems less useful, and less in the spirit of the rest of the section, than
starting the search for an enable-background:new ancestor at the parent
element.

BTW enable-background seems be one of those well-intentioned features that
is just making life harder for authors and for implementors, at least for
me. I can get the background image reasonably efficiently in all cases, so
the only reason I have to track the enable-background property is to break
the BackgroundImage feature if enable-background wasn't specified or set to
an inappropriate rectangle.

Rob
-- 
"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
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