<xsl:apply-templates select="apple"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="orange"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::apple|self::orange)]"/>

Cheers,
Wendell

I would like to preferentially list some children ahead of others. I'm trying to do it like this:

<xsl:apply-templates select="./apple"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="./orange"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="not(apple|orange)"/>

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