Hi Sherry,

the easiest way is probably by using XSLT, I have attached a simple example on the project page (look under screenshots). E.g. if your Embedded Content control has the alias 'productSpecifications', is located on the current page and has 2 properties with alias 'name' and 'value', you could do something like this:

<ul>

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/productSpecifications[@isDoc]/data/item">

  <li>

    <xsl:value-of select="./name">: <xsl;value-of select="./value">

  </li>

</xsl:for-each>

</ul>

Hope that makes sense. I'll upload a new, pretty much reworked version of the datatype in a bit, the frontend stays the same but the backend has had a good revamp due to some issues that have come up. IE made my life quite hard here, but it seems like I'll have the upper hand for now.

Cheers, Sascha

For those of you looking for a .net usercontrol sample using a repeater:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
        /* some code here to get the node you want */

        string productSpecifications = node.GetProperty(productSpecifications).Value;

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(productSpecifications))
        {
                XmlDataSource ds = new XmlDataSource();
                ds.Data = productSpecifications;
                ds.EnableCaching = false;

                Repeater1.DataSource = ds;
                Repeater1.DataBind();
        }
}

protected void Repeater1_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || 
               e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
     {
         var name = XPathBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "./name");
         var value = XPathBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "./value");
     }
}

Anyway to do that without a repeater?

You should be able to use a GridView as well - just set the gridview datasource & then databind it.  Or did you mean using something else?

Did you hook up your repeater to the ItemDataBound event in the source code (not codebehind)? 

Based on your example, I would try something like (untested code, so make adjustments as required):

string surveyAnswers = node.GetProperty("surveyAnswers").Value;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(surveyAnswers))
            {

      XmlDataSource ds = new XmlDataSource();
                ds.Data = surveyAnswers;
                ds.EnableCaching = false;

               DataView dv = ds.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty) as DataView;

               DataTable dt = dv.ToTable();

            foreach(var row in dt.Rows)

{

// do something

}

}

I'm building all dynamic in codebehind so can't add a controls in design view. ended up using child nodes which works fine- but i don't like having nodes in my tree which are not pages

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