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    copied!<p>I can't recall it from the top of my head but I think there was a bug in XmlDataSource that prevents you to bind to values of xml nodes. It works with attributes only. Please correct me if I am wrong with this. There's a slight modification you need to make to your XML file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%@ Page Language="C#" %&gt; &lt;script runat="server"&gt; protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!IsPostBack) { string xml = @"&lt;?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?&gt; &lt;Databases&gt; &lt;Database name=""foo"" /&gt; &lt;Database name=""bar"" /&gt; &lt;Database name=""baz"" /&gt; &lt;/Databases&gt;"; databasesSource.Data = xml; databasesSource.DataBind(); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" &gt; &lt;head runat="server"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Untitled Page&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form id="form1" runat="server"&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;asp:DropDownList ID="databases" runat="server" DataSourceID="databasesSource" DataValueField="name" DataTextField="name" /&gt; &lt;asp:XmlDataSource ID="databasesSource" runat="server" XPath="/Databases/Database" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Note that I added the <em>name</em> attribute instead of using the value of the node directly.</p> <p>If you can't modify the structure of your original XML file you can apply an XSLT transformation on it using the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.xmldatasource.transformfile.aspx" rel="noreferrer">TransformFile</a> property as described in this <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/pages/431322.aspx" rel="noreferrer">post</a>.</p>
 

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