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Average Xml Data using ASP.NET and VB

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This tutorial will show you how to calculate average of data from XML using ASP.NET 2.0 and VB.

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This tutorial will show you how to calculate average of data from XML using ASP.NET 2.0 and C#. The System.Xml.XPath namespace contains the classes that define a cursor model for navigating and editing XML information items as instances of the XPath 2.0 Data Model. XPath expressions as a string, or a compiled XPathExpression that return a W3C XPath type of boolean (System.Boolean), number (System.Double), string (System.String), or node set (System.Xml.XPath.XPathNodeIterator), can be passed to the Evaluate method. The Evaluate method takes the expression, evaluates it, and returns a typed result. This method could be used in a mathematical user defined method. For example, the following code calculates the total price of all item elements and div number of book in the current selection.

XPathNavigator class Provides a cursor model for navigating and editing XML data.
XPathDocument class Provides a fast, read-only cache for XML document processing using XSLT.
XPathNodeIterator class Provides an iterator over a selected set of nodes.

Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath
Imports System.Data.SqlClient

The following code of Button1_Click uses the Evaluate method with the average function.

Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

docNav = New XPathDocument(Server.MapPath("Books.xml"))
nav = docNav.CreateNavigator()
strExpression = "sum(/bookstore/book/price) div count(/bookstore/book/price)"
Label1.Text = nav.Evaluate(strExpression).ToString()

End Sub

The front end AverageXmlDataVB.aspx page looks something like this:

<div>
<br />
<table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#5482fc">
<tr>
<td height="50" align="center" class="lgHeader1">
How to Average xmldata using ASP.NET 2.0 and VB</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div align="center">
<fieldset style="width: 589px">
<legend>Average Price</legend>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" CellPadding="4"
ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None">
<FooterStyle BackColor="#507CD1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="title" HeaderText="Title" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="author" HeaderText="Author" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="price" HeaderText="Price" />
</Columns>
<RowStyle BackColor="#EFF3FB" />
<EditRowStyle BackColor="#2461BF" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#D1DDF1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="#2461BF" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="#507CD1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" />
</asp:GridView>
 
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click" Text="Average price" />
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Show averagedata from xml document:"></asp:Label></fieldset>
</div>

The flow for the code behind page is as follows.

Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath

Partial Class _Default

Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

Dim nav As XPathNavigator
Dim docNav As XPathDocument
Dim nodeIter As XPathNodeIterator
Dim strExpression As String

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

Dim myDs As DataSet = New DataSet()
myDs.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("Books.xml"))

Me.GridView1.DataSource = myDs.Tables("book").DefaultView
Me.GridView1.DataBind()
myDs.Clear()

End Sub

Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

End Sub

End Class

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