How to write a xsl file for this xml file?

[lichaoir]

hi, i want to write a xsl file for the following xml file, and use
this xsl file as the transform file of XmlDataSource. How to write it?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<students>
<student id="de95fcf1-5751-4be1-ab2a-54b38e7f5692">
<name>Chinedu Smith</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="8ec5439b-0d3f-4877-880f-dddf918bb7e1">
<name>Kevin Dike</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="efe066bf-7e0d-41da-8b90-d98d528b0203">
<name>Trece Webb</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="6312a045-44af-4639-887d-061a034cd753">
<name>Marcus Small</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="dc8624c0-3219-4007-8703-a3b9112d558c">
<name>Chandler Tukes</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="efd27f0f-dc92-479e-98b1-08b4e5d68c5c">
<name>Michael Wyatt</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="63f4ba95-b103-49ce-ab3e-a4f67b432bd8">
<name>Anthony Ford</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="d28e2fc8-4f63-4790-9612-25cd67a2e4ee">
<name>Angila Smith</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="4c91332c-bb47-4dc0-9b94-0d321efdc04c">
<name>Chardonay Petros</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="0d9a9bb9-d1a5-4565-b9e6-9a3652588e40">
<name>Kaylin Bonner</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="b803c78b-756f-4658-9a4f-654a3402834e">
<name>Antwan Carey</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="10154da4-8153-40e4-9b2b-30e100c92199">
<name>Shanyra Gordon</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="af4819af-7097-4d97-be82-cfa5ca5a4693">
<name>Joseph Doss</name>
<age>13</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="a1262aee-5ece-4046-8f2e-5271cb137389">
<name>Marqueise Norwood</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="cb8caaab-d58f-4027-9916-81e562c3981c">
<name>Ashley R Jones</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="774d46a2-20ed-4180-9bf8-35cf712f073b">
<name>Markolvy Cooper</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="4fa5bb72-4a29-4716-9c35-d46b1d7849bb">
<name>Lamarr McMillan</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="e74832e0-e378-41e6-bcfd-9e94ad8e868f">
<name>Andre Jones</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="8f96ce81-07ea-425d-b325-937ba09b7051">
<name>Ashley Stringer</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="287805a0-19b7-42da-bb3e-1060d6e7d930">
<name>Monishia Stringer</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="dcc6699a-4afc-42a0-959c-b6c2038da831">
<name>Sydney Smith</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="5da54036-f7a7-47e5-a34f-ad6185ab3be7">
<name>Christopher Larry</name>
<age>13</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="723cbb05-73ab-45f4-807f-b185f66cb696">
<name>Tyler Swain</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="3700b111-dffd-4595-b81e-fa4d7128de0e">
<name>Mariah Hicks</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="c5788d0c-16b1-4bfe-a439-f3bad57d405e">
<name>Joseph Brown</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="1babd659-7390-4db2-b1b1-6fe2787e22c7">
<name>Zachary Almanzar</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="80f316ae-393d-4fdc-9372-84e353317f64">
<name>Marlana Edgerson</name>
<age>13</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="e81514a5-29cc-4e2c-a46d-1d6f0b115df6">
<name>Erica Ledbetter</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="b0dfd6e1-498c-44d0-97f2-60c27c71574c">
<name>Robert Moore</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
<student id="3da66bec-b662-4cf7-a581-bdf188bbf97e">
<name>Malik Moore</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="1019eab9-19ec-458f-b58a-6b9894b20a25">
<name>Jaylen Benison</name>
<age>14</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="11d1ed12-c186-4b37-a39c-0b214cddaeb3">
<name>Briana Bryant</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="24823853-0548-4f4e-abbc-8200ada32075">
<name>Amber Dudley</name>
<age>13</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="bebb8a6f-6ec7-452f-bcb8-7f4e5ba852a1">
<name>Aspen Williams</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="8ac7f24b-f9fa-4d87-8034-a3b7c8dd0cc7">
<name>Ashley Davis-Holden</name>
<age>15</age>
<gender>Female</gender>
</student>
<student id="e75a79c5-b765-4953-a94c-8d9fb9a50b04">
<name>Rojal Akhahon</name>
<age>12</age>
<gender>Male</gender>
</student>
</students>

thanks for your discussion and answer!

 

[Andrew Faust]

That depends on what you are trying to do? Retreive the average age of the
students? Retreive an alphabetized list of students? Etc.

Here's a good resource to start you off:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

 

[lichaoir]

I just want to use the xsl file for XmlDataSource and then show the
info in a GridView.