Use ItemTemplate and XPath to display data from XmlDataSource

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="false" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:XmlDataSource ID="sourceDVD" 
                           runat="server" 
                           DataFile="~/Data.xml">
        </asp:XmlDataSource>
        <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" 
                      runat="server" 
                      AutoGenerateColumns="False" 
                      DataSourceID="sourceDVD">
            <Columns>
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="DVD">
                <ItemTemplate>
                <%#XPath("./@ID")%><br />
                  <b><%#XPath("./Title")%></b><br />
                  <%#XPath("./Director")%><br />
                  <%#XPath("./Price", "{0:c}")%><br />
                         </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
    
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

File: Data.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<DvdList>
   <DVD ID="1" Category="Category 1">
      <Title>title 1</Title>
      <Director>directory 2</Director>
      <Price>1</Price>
      <Starring>
         <Star>star 1</Star>
         <Star>star 2</Star>
      </Starring>
   </DVD>
   <DVD ID="2" Category="Category 2">
      <Title>title 2</Title>
      <Director>directory 2</Director>
      <Price>2</Price>
      <Starring>
         <Star>star 3</Star>
         <Star>star 4</Star>
      </Starring>
   </DVD>
</DvdList>

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