XML, XSL and a question

[WiseNewbie]

Hi,

I'm using an example posted here:

http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/dotnetxmlxsl.asp

to write my own XML/XSL based page using ASP.NET however i have some questions regarding this.

I'm doing a project for a technical book library and they want their books to be in XML format for ease and yadda yadda, but they are in specific categories (say like VB, .NET, ASP etc) so i thought of writing the XML file as so:

<Books>
<Book type=&quot;VB&quot;>
<Title>Blah</title>
<categories>
<Category>
<Name>BASIC</name>
<Name>Visual Basic</name>
</category>
</categories>
</Book>
<Book type=&quot;C++&quot;>
<Title>Blah</title>
</Book>
</Books>

Now my code is identical to that on the site with some changes to make the above XML file work. I was wondering if i can only display certain parts of the XML file instead of all, say just VB books or just C++ and optionally ALL books... and if so how?

theres also a different way of doing this:

<Books>
<VB>
<Book>
<Title>Blah</title>
<categories>
<Category>
<Name>BASIC</name>
<Name>Visual Basic</name>
</category>
</categories>
</Book>
</VB>
<C++>
<Book>
<Title>Blah</title>
</Book>
</C++>
</Books>

Whichever i can workout i'll use... i personally prefer the latter.

Thanks,

emily

 

[BoulderBum]

You can take advantage of the XMLReader or the XPathNavigator.

This XPath tutorial is amazing, and offers a hands on online engine called &quot;XLab&quot; for testing out statements:

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html