last post escaped before I could finish typing :)
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> I am assuming the following is what is needed (along with declaring the
> namespace) to translate the XML to FO to PDF:


  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:processing-instruction
name="cocoon-format">type="text/xslfo"</xsl:processing-instruction>
    <fo:root>
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