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Manjit Singh
Manjit Singh

Reputation: 255

how to display data in bulleted list in asp.net?

I am new to asp.net and I want to display data in Bulleted list.I am fetching items using following Foreach loop and want to display in a Bulleted list in asp.net.

Result.aspx.cs

foreach (XmlElement statement1 in node2statements.ChildNodes)
{
var st = statement1.InnerText.ToString();                      
}

Result.aspx

<ul id="section1">
<li>
</li>
</ul>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2874

Answers (2)

Pilgerstorfer Franz
Pilgerstorfer Franz

Reputation: 8359

I did a small example to demonstrate how to bind data from an xml file to a bulletedList. I used a XmlDataSource object. First I used an xml file

products.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<list>
  <product id="123">
    <name>product a</name>
    <price>123.45</price>
  </product>
  <product id="123">
    <name>product b</name>
    <price>123.45</price>
  </product>
</list>

and I created a transform file - as only attributes will be accesible in controls. Credit goes to Darin Dimitrov for pointing out that

... a bug in XmlDataSource that prevents you to bind to values of xml nodes. It works with attributes only

transform.xsl

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="list">
    <list>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="product"/>
    </list>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="product">
    <product>
      <xsl:attribute name="id">
        <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="name">
        <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="price">
        <xsl:value-of select="price"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
    </product>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Then I did two examples - first one demonstrates how to use it within the page.

<form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <h3>Bulleted List with XML binding</h3>
        <asp:BulletedList ID="blPageOnly" runat="server" DataValueField="id" DataTextField="name" DataSourceID="xmlSource"></asp:BulletedList>
        <asp:XmlDataSource ID="xmlSource" runat="server" DataFile="~/app_data/products.xml" TransformFile="~/app_data/transform.xsl" XPath="list/product"></asp:XmlDataSource>
    </div>
    <div>
        <h3>Bulleted List with XML binding - code behind</h3>
        <asp:BulletedList ID="blCodeBehind" runat="server"></asp:BulletedList>
    </div>
</form>

Second one shows how to bind xml file from code behind

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!Page.IsPostBack)
    {
        XmlDataSource xmlSource = new XmlDataSource()
        {
            DataFile = "~/app_data/products.xml",
            XPath="list/product",
            TransformFile = "~/app_data/transform.xsl"
        };

        blCodeBehind.DataSource = xmlSource;
        blCodeBehind.DataTextField = "name";
        blCodeBehind.DataValueField = "id";

        blCodeBehind.DataBind();
    }
}

Will result in

BulletedList databinding with XmlDataSource

I hope you can adapt my code to help you out!

Upvotes: 1

Arushi Agrawal
Arushi Agrawal

Reputation: 629

Make use of asp:Repeater and bind it with your Child Nodes

Inside the item template of repeater you can define UL and LI and assign them to statement1

Upvotes: 0

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