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Using a DataList control to display XML content
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<%@ Page Language="C#"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title>XmlDataSource</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:datalist id="DataList1" DataSourceID="XmlDataSource1" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<b><%# XPath("author/first-name") %>
<%# XPath("author/last-name")%></b>
wrote <%# XPath("title") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:datalist>
<asp:xmldatasource id="XmlDataSource1" runat="server"
datafile="~/Data.xml"
xpath="//bookstore/book"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
File: Data.xml
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<bookstore xmlns="http://example.books.com"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<book genre="A"
publicationdate="1981"
ISBN="1-11111-11-0">
<title>title 1</title>
<author>
<first-name>A</first-name>
<last-name>B</last-name>
</author>
<price>8</price>
</book>
<book genre="B"
publicationdate="1999"
ISBN="0-222-22222-2">
<title>title 2</title>
<author>
<first-name>C</first-name>
<last-name>D</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
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