XSL Match Templates
Style sheets are made of a number of templates, each of which defines what the XSLT processor should do when it matches a particular node in the XML source document. The XSLT processor populates the result document by instantiating a sequence of templates. Instantiation of a template means that the XSLT processor performs the following tasks:

Copies any literal data from the template to the target

Executes the XSLT instructions in the template
Templates are defined using the <xsl: template>
element. The match
attribute in the <xsl:template>
element indicates which parts of the source document should be processed with the particular template.
Last modified date: 11/30/2021