Wildcards * and >

To understand the rules for inheritance of properties, it is important to understand the use of the two wildcards, * and >.

The wildcard > by itself matches any destination name.
When > is mixed with text, it matches one or more trailing elements. For example:
```
 foo.> 
```
Matches foo.bar, foo.boo, foo.boo.bar, and foo.bar.boo.
The wildcard * means that any token can be in the place of *. For example:
```
 foo.*
```
Matches foo.bar and foo.boo, but not foo.bar.boo.
```
 foo.*.bar
```
Matches foo.boo.bar, but not foo.bar.

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