xsl:template Element in XSLT

<xsl:template> Element :

A template contains rules which will be applied when a specifiied node is matched.

Employees.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Employees>
<Employee>
<Name>Vijai</Name>
<Id>1</Id>
<Designation>Associate</Designation>
<Location>Bangalore</Location>
<Department>SharePoint</Department>
<Experience>3</Experience>
</Employee>
<Employee>
<Name>Ranjith</Name>
<Id>2</Id>
<Designation>Associate</Designation>
<Location>Bangalore</Location>
<Department>SharePoint</Department>
<Experience>5</Experience>
</Employee>
<Employee>
<Name>Rakesh</Name>
<Id>3</Id>
<Designation>Associate</Designation>
<Location>Chennai</Location>
<Department>LN</Department>
<Experience>6</Experience>
</Employee>
<Employee>
<Name>Kavya</Name>
<Id>4</Id>
<Designation>Associate</Designation>
<Location>Chennai</Location>
<Department>LN</Department>
<Experience>3</Experience>
</Employee>
<Employee>
<Name>Pai</Name>
<Id>5</Id>
<Designation>Associate</Designation>
<Location>Chennai</Location>
<Department>LN</Department>
<Experience>3</Experience>
</Employee>
</Employees>

EmployeesXSL.xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="Employees/Employee">
<div STYLE="font-weight:bold; color:red;font-style:italic">
<xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

Vijai
Ranjith
Rakesh
Kavya
Pai

Explanation:

--XML declaration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

--Style Sheet declaration
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

--defines the template element. When Employees/Employee xml element is matched the rules will be applied and the output will be displayed
<xsl:template match="Employees/Employee">

-- <div> tag with STYLE attribute is used within which the output will be displayed
<div STYLE="font-weight:bold; color:red;font-style:italic">

--displays only the Name value from the xml
<xsl:value-of select="Name"/>

--Closing the <div> element
</div>

--Closing the <xsl:template> element
</xsl:template>

--Closing the <xsl:stylesheet> element
</xsl:stylesheet>