Firing rule of Pattern Matching

Hello.
I am a newbie XSL writer. Please tell me a following basic question.

I wrote a XSL with using template and apply-templates. If there are multiple
templates each of which has a conformed pattern to the new selected context,
which will be selected? Are there a certain rule to determine the selection?
I made a lot of simple sources and tried them, but I couldn't get a
hypothesis with confidence.

Please tell me the rule.
Thank you in advance.

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Shinichiro HAMADA


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