Summary How to bind a nested xml to a repeater control with Container.DataItem?

If you have a nested XML structure, than you simply can not bind it to a repeater control and expect that you can get the result from the XML file. For that purpose you will need to change a bit code of Container.DataItem. In the following example I assume that you know how to include a repeater control with Visual Studio. I am using the following XML file.  

The following code will bind the ID and the value of the MainCategory element to the repeater control.

Additional information

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.Load(Server.MapPath("XmlBinding.xml")); XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes("CategoryList/Category/MainCategory"); // rpDirectory is the repeater control rpDirectory.DataSource = nodes; rpDirectory.DataBind(); Now in the design view of the page in Visual Studio use Container.DataItem like this: // Will return the ID 3 <%# ((System.Xml.XmlNode)Container.DataItem).Attributes["ID"~.Value %> // Will return XML <%# ((System.Xml.XmlNode)Container.DataItem).InnerXml %>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <CategoryList> <Category> <MainCategory ID="3">XML</MainCategory> <Description>List of XML articles.</Description> <Active>Yes</Active> </Category> </CategoryList>

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