Template

an tag,

some other tag,
or whitespace.

In the example above case, the non-XSL tags are HTML tags. So when the root tag is matched, XSLT:

outputs the HTML start tags,
processes any templates that apply to children of the root,
and then outputs the HTML end tags.

Order

Templates are independent of one another, so it does not generally matter where they occur in a file.Order does make a difference when two templates can apply to the same node. In that case, the one that is defined last is the one that is found and processed.