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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>








25.2.DataList
25.2.1.Using a DataList control to display XML content