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Use ItemTemplate and XPath to display data from XmlDataSource
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<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="false" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:XmlDataSource ID="sourceDVD"
runat="server"
DataFile="~/Data.xml">
</asp:XmlDataSource>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1"
runat="server"
AutoGenerateColumns="False"
DataSourceID="sourceDVD">
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="DVD">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#XPath("./@ID")%><br />
<b><%#XPath("./Title")%></b><br />
<%#XPath("./Director")%><br />
<%#XPath("./Price", "{0:c}")%><br />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<DvdList>
<DVD ID="1" Category="Category 1">
<Title>title 1</Title>
<Director>directory 2</Director>
<Price>1</Price>
<Starring>
<Star>star 1</Star>
<Star>star 2</Star>
</Starring>
</DVD>
<DVD ID="2" Category="Category 2">
<Title>title 2</Title>
<Director>directory 2</Director>
<Price>2</Price>
<Starring>
<Star>star 3</Star>
<Star>star 4</Star>
</Starring>
</DVD>
</DvdList>
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