How to parse an XML file - Beginner...

[DelphiLover]

Hi.

This should be a walk in the park for almost anyone...

I'm a skilled win32 programmer, trying to learn asp.net 2.0
I've tried making a XML file parsing it to draw a GUI (web application)

I have a small example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Persons>
<Person ID="ET40">
<FirstName>Ba rt-Jan</FirstName>
<LastName>Brouw er</LastName>
</Person>
<Person ID="ET50">
<FirstName>Mort en</FirstName>
<LastName>Jacob sen</LastName>
</Person>
</Persons>

I put a gridview on a form, new datasource, connect it to a xml file,
point to the example above and voila... BUT what I see is the Person
ID's... I wanna see more than this. I wanna see a record giving me the
ID, first and last name... How on EARTH can I do this?

I connected it to a tree view and then managed to view all the data,
but this is not how I want to read it.

What I WANT to do is this:
Parse the XML file with a datareader and draw my GUI according to what
I parse through.
(A list of images with filename, height and width)

Can anyone tell me how to do this?
And beginner code would be greatly appreciated!

Thanx in advance,

Fritjolf

[dotnetnoob]

i don't know how gridview work since i never use those control but to get the
person's ID you can type in this xpath query /Persons/Person/@ID and that
should get you all the ID under persons/person.

"DelphiLove r" wrote:

Hi.

This should be a walk in the park for almost anyone...

I'm a skilled win32 programmer, trying to learn asp.net 2.0
I've tried making a XML file parsing it to draw a GUI (web application)

I have a small example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Persons>
<Person ID="ET40">
<FirstName>Ba rt-Jan</FirstName>
<LastName>Brouw er</LastName>
</Person>
<Person ID="ET50">
<FirstName>Mort en</FirstName>
<LastName>Jacob sen</LastName>
</Person>
</Persons>

I put a gridview on a form, new datasource, connect it to a xml file,
point to the example above and voila... BUT what I see is the Person
ID's... I wanna see more than this. I wanna see a record giving me the
ID, first and last name... How on EARTH can I do this?

I connected it to a tree view and then managed to view all the data,
but this is not how I want to read it.

What I WANT to do is this:
Parse the XML file with a datareader and draw my GUI according to what
I parse through.
(A list of images with filename, height and width)

Can anyone tell me how to do this?
And beginner code would be greatly appreciated!

Thanx in advance,

Fritjolf