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How to bind XML File or XML DataSource to a DataList Control in Asp.Net

DataList control is an important control in Asp.Net applications. Most of the times we need to bind DataList control from a Database using Ado.Net datasource. But sometimes we need to bind XML file as Datasource into a DataList control. Here in this article i will demonstrate how one can bind XML data into a DataList control using the datasource XmlDataSource. The output will be:

Bind XML data into DataList controlo

To do the above example we need to write an XML file like:
01<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
02<Customers>
03  <Customer>
04    <Name>Shawpnendu Bikash Maloroy</Name>
05    <Address>Uttara, Dhaka</Address>
06    <City>Dhaka</City>
07    <Phone>011789657</Phone>
08  </Customer>
09  <Customer>
10    <Name>Bimolandu Bikash Maloroy</Name>
11    <Address>Sonaimuri, Noakhali</Address>
12    <City>Noakhali</City>
13    <Phone>019789687</Phone>
14  </Customer>
15  <Customer>
16    <Name>Purnendu Bikash Maloroy</Name>
17    <Address>FirmGate, Dhaka</Address>
18    <City>Dhaka</City>
19    <Phone>018788767</Phone>
20  </Customer>
21  <Customer>
22    <Name>Shadesh Chandra Chanda</Name>
23    <Address>Maijdee, Noakhali</Address>
24    <City>Noakhali</City>
25    <Phone>015787597</Phone>
26  </Customer>
27  <Customer>
28    <Name>Sajal Chandra Chanda</Name>
29    <Address>Maijdee, Noakhali</Address>
30    <City>Noakhali</City>
31    <Phone>019734557</Phone>
32  </Customer>
33</Customers>

Now add an aspx page into your project & modify the HTML markup like below:
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01<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="DataList_XML.aspx.cs" Inherits="DataList_XML" %>
02 
03<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
04 
05<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
06<head runat="server">
07    <title>An Example of Binding XML Datasource into DataList Control</title>
08</head>
09<body>
10    <form id="form1" runat="server">
11    <div>
12     
13    <asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" DataSourceID="XmlDataSource1">
14        <HeaderTemplate>Customer Name</HeaderTemplate>
15        <ItemStyle BackColor="Gray" ForeColor="Yellow" />
16        <AlternatingItemStyle BackColor="Silver" />
17        <ItemTemplate>
18            <%# XPath("Name")%>
19        </ItemTemplate>
20    </asp:DataList>
21     
22    <asp:XmlDataSource ID="XmlDataSource1" runat="server"
23        DataFile="Customers.xml"
24        XPath="//Customers/Customer">
25    </asp:XmlDataSource>
26     
27    </div>
28    </form>
29</body>
30</html>

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