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Answer 1

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I haven't seen a helper extension out there that does what you need.

There are some good ones that work with generic collections (such as Telerik's or MVCContrib's). The sample you provide cannot be translated in to a collection that would be handled by these however: the row needs to have cells that can be matched to the header elements.

<xml>
  <REPORT>
     <HEADERS>
       <HEAD>Col1</HEAD>           
       <HEAD>Col2</HEAD>
     </HEADERS>         
     <ROWS>
       <ROW><CELL>Data1</CELL><CELL>Data2</CELL></ROW>           
       <ROW><CELL>Data2</CELL><CELL>Data4</CELL></ROW>
     </ROWS>
  </REPORT>
 </xml>

If the XML can be deserialized into a generic collection, it is easy to populate the grid.

Hope this helps.

robDean 2009-11-12 13:27:33

Thanks for the reply, I'm currently in the process of writing my own sort/filter grid, the job is an usual one and my hands are tied by how I receive the reports.

Israfel 2009-11-12 15:13:10

Answer 2

+1 A:

I'd look into the JQuery Grid. You have to munge the data into the format that it wants, but it gives you a lot of flexibility and nice UI for free. You will still need to write sort code, though.

Jeremy 2009-11-13 08:22:03

Answer 3

+1 A:

I would advise using the jquery grid. Then write a class to parse the xml and generate the grid javascript in the view, and a second action to parse the xml (again) and generate the json result. MVCCrud may help with the idea there is a generic jquery grid in there but it works off an IQueryable list so would need to be adapted.

Matthew Hood 2009-11-13 08:44:47

Thanks guys, I will do up a test project with this this morning, this tutorial here seems to be along the lines of what I'm looking for http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/04/15/38212/

Israfel 2009-11-13 09:15:17

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