can someone help me find a way to transfer data from an XML to a hashtable.  I need it in a hashtable because i need to have a key value pair.  The reason i also have two items per value is i need to do a rotation everythime a user goes to my site it will rotate the image. I've never done this before and not sure if it's possible.  I'm using visual studios 08 in C#

XML:

located inside App_Data(cake.xml)

<cakeshop>
<items value="cake">
  <item>
   <image>cake1.gif</image>
   <link>cake.aspx</link>
   <percent>50</percent>
</item>
  <item>
   <image>cake2.gif</image>
   <link>cake2.aspx</link>
   <percent>50</percent>
</item>
</items>

<items value="donut">
  <item>
   <image>donut1.gif</image>
   <link>donut.aspx</link>
   <percent>50</percent>
</item>
  <item>
   <image>donut2.gif</image>
   <link>donut2.aspx</link>
   <percent>50</percent>
</items>
</cakeshop>

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code is located inside the App_Code (cakerotation.cs)

public static void CakeRotation()
{
XMLDocument objGetCake = new XMLDocument();
objGetCake.Load(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/cake.xml"));

if (null != objGetCake)
{
      //this is where I get stuck because I'm not sure how to load the XML Data inside the HashTable.
}

 }

can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance.

What do you want to store in the HashTable.

Sample code for getting the items and no of children and put in hashtable 

Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();

ht[node.Attributes["value"].Value] = node.ChildNodes.Count;

I want to store the data that's inside the XML file.

so I want the key to be the "cake" which is the value inside the <items value=""> node and the value would be the <image>,<link>,<percentage>

is this possible?

Your have 1 to Many relation ie Items has may item how do you want to represent this in hash or could you tell us how are you planning to use this hash ?

i just want to be able to pull the data so that i can create a key value pair.  my goal is when the user goes to a page, lets say cake.aspx.  i can compare the items under the cake items and then do some kind of image rotation based on the two items under that <items value"cake">

 i just can't figure out how to grab these data out and put it in a hashtable i've been looking around the site and found nothing. I can't to the .net adrotator because i dont want the image to be changed when the page is refreshed. 

 does anyone have a clue on how i can solve this issue? Thanks.

Hi newbie_2007,

See here : http://forums.asp.net/t/1283744.aspx