Thank you all very much for the input.  Yes, the copy-of did the trick.  Now I am trying to usng FOP redering as follows..  I see no FO effect. I muct be doing something silly but, don't know what.

Thanks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >     

 <xsl:template match="document" >
                  <fo:block text-align="center" 
                            font-size="18pt" 
                            font-weight="bold"
                            font-family="serif"
                            line-height="2em" >
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
         </fo:block>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='test.xsl'?>
<document id=" ">
  <chapter>
        <name1>subscript <sub> testsub </sub></name1>
</chapter>
</document>



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