Hi, I am just wondering what i am doing wrong. When I use the listview like this:

        <asp:XmlDataSource
        id="XmlSourceT2"
        DataFile="/App_Data/cl.xml"
         XPath="courseList/category_background/security/tg1"
        runat="server" />

 <asp:ListView ID="ListView_tg" runat="server" DataSourceID="XmlSourceT2">
          <LayoutTemplate>            <ul>              <asp:PlaceHolder ID="itemPlaceHolder" runat="server" />            </ul >          </LayoutTemplate>
          <EmptyDataTemplate>            <li>Error!</li>          </EmptyDataTemplate>
          <ItemTemplate>
      <li><%# Eval("@desc") %> </li> 
          </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:ListView>

xml file:

   <security>

  <tg desc="some stuff #1." />
        <tg desc="some stuff #2." />
        <tg desc="some stuff #3." />

........

</security>

All three items will show.  But if i chose to use the XPATH as follows:

        <asp:XmlDataSource
        id="XmlSourceT2"
        DataFile="/App_Data/cl.xml"
         XPath="courseList/category_background/security"
        runat="server" />

    <li><%# XPath("tg1/@desc") %> </li> 

Only the top list item shows - the other 2 are not listed.

 Cheers

Tania

Hi taniafarmer ,

Yes , it will not show all the records. If you specify xpath to "courseList/category_background/security/tg" , this will generate one xmlNodelist like this : XmlNodeList lst = doc.SelectNodes("courseList/category_background/security/tg") , the length of lst is greater than one , so the ListView control will iterate each XmlNode in the lst and show each desc attribute in ItemTemplate . But if you use xpath "courseList/category_background/security" , the length of lst will be one , then ListView will only generate one item. So you must "tell" ListView control how much items it should render.