Question

I have XML data similar to the example below and I am trying to bind it to a ListView. I am having trouble binding the element name, which is the brand of the car in the example. I have found out from this post Xaml Support for Local Name in XPath that xaml doesn’t support xpath function names. Therefore, local-name() doesn’t work. But there got to be a way to do this…

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication4.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow"
        Height="350"
        Width="525">
  <Window.Resources>
    <XmlDataProvider x:Key="DataSource">
      <x:XData>
        <Cars xmlns="">
          <Data>
            <Honda Year="2012"
                   Color="Red"
                   Model="Accord" />
            <Subuar Year="2008"
                    Color="Blue"
                    Model="Outback" />
            <Ford Year="2000"
                  Color="Black"
                  Model="Focus" />
          </Data>
        </Cars>
      </x:XData>
    </XmlDataProvider>
  </Window.Resources>
  <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding XPath=Cars/Data/*}"
            DataContext="{StaticResource DataSource}">
    <ListView.View>
      <GridView>
        <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding XPath=???}"
                        Header="Brand" />
        <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding XPath=@Year}"
                        Header="Year" />
        <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding XPath=@Color}"
                        Header="Color" />
        <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding XPath=@Model}"
                        Header="Model" />
      </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
  </ListView>
</Window>

Answer 1

If you use the normal Binding.Path is should bind to the properties of the DataContext object which should be an XmlElement so just try {Binding Name}.