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Address property documentation concerns. 

Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9090)
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@ -126,20 +126,16 @@ Two levels of property query are supported.
A context based property query that applies to all fetch operations and a local
property query.
Where both the context and local queries include a clause with the same name,
the local clause is used and the context one ignored.
For example, a context property query of "fips=yes" and a local property query
of "fips=no" would result in algorithms that have the "fips" property set t
"no".
the local clause overrides the context clause.
=head2 Override
It is possible for a local property query to override a clause in the context
It is possible for a local property query to remove a clause in the context
property query by preceeding the property name with a '-'.
For example, a conxtet property query that contains "fips=yes" would normally
For example, a context property query that contains "fips=yes" would normally
result in implementations that have "fips=yes".
However, if the setting of
the "fips" property is irrelevant to the operations being performed, the local
property query can include the clause "-fips".
However, if the setting of the "fips" property is irrelevant to the
operations being performed, the local property query can include the
clause "-fips".
Note that the local property query could not use "fips=no" because that would
disallow any implementations with "fips=yes" rather than not caring about the
setting.