Odd use of templates?

[Iain]

I'm building a data drive page. What I'd like to do is to put a number of
templated controls on the page and for each data item I want to put on the
page to select one of them (through an attribute in the data) to use to
display that particular data item.

So, unlike a datagrid, the controls for a particular template will not all
be grouped together.

In other words, I'd like to be able to apply data items to a templated
control several times and place the results at various points on the page.

so the page might look like

<MC:Control1 ... ID="Ctrl1">
<templateThing></templateThing>
....
</MC:COntrol1>
<MC:Control2 ... ID="Ctrl2">
<templateThing></templateThing>
....
</MC:COntrol2>
and my data (cml of course!) may look like

<Stuff>
<Data UseControl="Ctrl1">...</Data>
<Data UseControl="Ctrl2">...</Data>
<Data UseControl="Ctrl2">...</Data>
<Data UseControl="Ctrl1">...</Data>
<Data UseControl="Ctrl1">...</Data>
</Stuff>

So the visual output will be a 5 chunks of information, with 2 layout types
as you see.

I've written Templated Data Controls in ASP.NET 1.1., but I can't quite get
my head around this one...

Iain
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Iain Downs (DirectShow MVP)
Commercial Software Therapist
www.idcl.co.uk