Definition of Regular Immersion in Qing Liu

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Qing gives the following definition.

Definition 6.3.4. Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be an immersion of locally Noetherian schemes. We say $f$ is a regular immersion of codimension $n$ at $x$ if the ideal $Ker(\mathcal O_{Y,f(x)}\rightarrow \mathcal O_{X,x})$ is generated by a regular sequence of $n$ element.

I'm wondering if it is well defined. For example, is that possible for some other regular sequence generating the ideal, it has a different length?

Also, under this definition, how to show a composition of 2 regular immersions of codimension $n$ and $m$ is still a regular immersion of dimension $n+m$?

Thank you!