[css3-text] Text shadow issues

Hi,
I'm currently implementing text-shadow support. I have a few questions 
about the specification text at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#text-shadows (and the 
pretty similar CSS2 wording, but given that this property was removed in 
CSS 2.1, it will probably not be clarified in a further CSS 2 revision).

This is a property that's not inherited. The spec also says "to be 
applied to the text of the element". What exactly does this mean? My 
understanding was that it means "text nodes that are immediate childs of 
this DOM node". Is that correct?


Also, is the drawing order of shadow effects and the normal text of 
other elements specified? That is, can a shadow overlay the text of 
other nodes in a document?

thanks,
-biesi