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Databinding Returning nothing

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Kavius

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I am having trouble binding my xml to an html document. When I bind the data, nothing shows in the body of the table.

The code:
Code: 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<xml id=&quot;BookList&quot;>
  <book>
    <bookid>1</bookid>
    <title>Of the Causes of Wonderful Things</title>
    <subtitle></subtitle>
    <author>
      <fname>John</fname>
      <mname>Baptist</mname>
      <lname>Porta</lname>
    </author>
  </book>
  <book>
    <bookid>2</bookid>
    <title>Of the Generation of Animals</title>
    <subtitle></subtitle>
    <author>
      <fname>John</fname>
      <mname>Baptist</mname>
      <lname>Porta</lname>
    </author>
  </book>
</xml>

</HEAD>
<BODY>
  <table border=&quot;0&quot; datasrc=&quot;#BookList&quot;>

    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>ISBN</th>
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>SubTitle</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>

    <tfoot>
      <tr>
        <th>((</th>
        <th>))</th>
      </tr>
    </tfoot>

    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td><span datafld=&quot;bookid&quot;></span></td>
        <td><span datafld=&quot;title&quot;></span></td>
        <td><span datafld=&quot;subtitle&quot;></span></td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>

  </table>

</BODY>

</HTML>
 
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Unfortunately, I thought it might be something syntactical (is that even a word?), so I went to W3Schools and got their code for doing just such a thing. I figure if I can get a sample working, I can always modify the variables to point to my data. I cut and paste the code off of their page, made the modifications to account for a change in host, and got the exact same results I was getting before.

w3schools example:

My page:
 
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OK, so I figured it out...

Look at the XML and count the top level elements. I'm pretty new to XML but I know that I read that you are allowed only 1 top level element. The booklist has 2 books. I have corrected this by encapsulating the two books in a <booklist> tag. This has fixed the error.

The above URL will likely not work for a while, but with this working I will likely have it up as booklist.asp in the near future.

 
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