<xsl:template match="/d:book">
   <!-- ignoring root, page-sequence etc for brevity -->
   <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="d:chapter">
   <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="d:chapter/d:title">
   <fo:block>  ... ...</fo:block>
</xsl:template>

Then for some reason the titleabbrev appears in the output even though I have not made any rule explicitly matching it. It is caught along with the title inside the apply-templates under d:chapter. I thought that this would not happen, unless I really added a matching template of some sort, for example an identity transform.

<xsl:template match="d:chapter">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="d:title"/>
</xsl:template>

	Martin Honnen
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/