19.6. XML Data Binding
The Xml control is a great way to display XML data in a web page by converting it to HTML. But what if you want to display data in another type of control, such as a GridView? You could use the XML classes you learned about earlier, which is definitely the most flexible approach. However, if you don't need that much control, you may be interested in the XmlDataSource control, which allows you to take XML from a file and feed it right into another control.
The XmlDataSource control works much like the SqlDataSource control you learned about in Chapter 16. However, it has two key differences:
The XmlDataSource extracts information from an XML file, rather than a database or data access class. It provides other controls with ...
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