<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="HolmesQuote" %> <!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> </div> </form> </body> </html> File: Default.aspx.cs using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using System.Xml; public partial class HolmesQuote : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { MyQuote quotes = new MyQuote(Server.MapPath("./Data.xml")); Quotation quote = quotes.GetRandomQuote(); Response.Write("<b>" + quote.Source + "</b> (<i>" + quote.Date + "</i>)"); Response.Write("<blockquote>" + quote.QuotationText + "</blockquote>"); } } public class Quotation { private string qsource; private string date; private string quotation; public Quotation(XmlNode quoteNode) { if ( (quoteNode.SelectSingleNode("source")) != null) qsource = quoteNode.SelectSingleNode("source").InnerText; if ( (quoteNode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("date")) != null) date = quoteNode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("date").Value; quotation = quoteNode.FirstChild.InnerText; } public string Source { get { return qsource; } set { qsource = value; } } public string Date { get { return date; } set { date = value; } } public string QuotationText { get { return quotation; } set { quotation = value; } } } public class MyQuote { private XmlDocument quoteDoc; private int quoteCount; public MyQuote(string fileName) { quoteDoc = new XmlDocument(); quoteDoc.Load(fileName); quoteCount = quoteDoc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes.Count; } public Quotation GetRandomQuote() { int i; Random x = new Random(); i = x.Next(quoteCount-1); return new Quotation( quoteDoc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes[i] ); } } File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <quotations> <quotation date="1887"> <pre>A</pre> <source>W</source> </quotation> <quotation date="1887"> <pre>t</pre> <source>S</source> </quotation> </quotations>