Hi,

I have about 10 pages which refer to 10 different courses. 

Part of the xmldatasouce is the same in each page:  How do i recycle the datasource efficiently?

   <asp:XmlDataSource
        id="XmlSourceT1"
        DataFile="/courselist.xml"
        runat="server"
        XPath="courseList/category/product[@code ='av']" />

The actual content is listed in the usercode file and is selected based on the "@code='something'" in the xpath.  I can see moving the datasource to the usercode.ascx.vb file but how do i change the code to reflect the page.

so in pages:

av.aspx =   XPath="courseList/category/product[@code ='av']" />

lr.aspx =   XPath="courseList/category/product[@code ='lr']" />

hr.aspx =   XPath="courseList/category/product[@code ='hr']" />

etc.

Thanks

Tania

Hi taniafarmer ,

So the xmlDataSource control reside in UserControl. You need to expose one public property , and you will set xmlDataSource's xpath manually.

    public string Xpath
    {
        
        set 
        {
            this.XmlDataSource1.XPath = "courseList/category/product[@code ='"+value+"']"; 
        }
    }

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="WebUserControl4.ascx.cs" Inherits="WebUserControl4" %>
<asp:XmlDataSource ID="XmlDataSource1" runat="server"></asp:XmlDataSource>