Container

Intermediate scopes that provide inheritance without being navigable rooms.

Containers are directories that define shared properties for their children, without themselves being places you can "go to."

The OpenLaszlo Inspiration

In OpenLaszlo (Don Hopkins' earlier work!), <node> was a fundamental building block:

<!-- OpenLaszlo: <node> provides inheritance without visual layout -->
<node name="mazeDefaults">
  <attribute name="isDark" value="true"/>
  <attribute name="hasDanger" value="true"/>
</node>