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Conceptual brain picking (and once code question) - how might a true false quiz be built?

I am practicing some coding, and want to build a page that has a series of questions with the answer options of true or false using asp.net (my current job uses asp.net1.1 so I need to hone skills using that version) . The quiz is data built as an xml file. Currently I am building it as a series of nested repeaters to build the question (Question stem, then the true and false choices). The snag I am having is accessing a specific property of each answer (distractor) element (isCorrect), to store in an array as the correct choice, to later step thru for scoring. I am attaching my XML below, but what I guess I am looking for is first, what command could I use in the code behind to get the "isCorrect" property, and more importantly, from a high level, conceptual, point of view, is there a better way for me to be building this type of page?

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ethoths

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cbittner

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Makes sense, I'll look into that now, but here is a question, xslt will format the XML into the format I want, but what I also need is the ability to perform logic on each question item loaded that says "ok, if this choice is the right answer, add my id to an array", so I can step thru that array to check the answers. Will I still have the ability to perform logic on each item in the xml file using xslt?

cbittner

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ok, I am playing with the xslt approach, here is a question, how do I use server controls in an xslt template - it doesn't like the inclusion of the radioButton.

<xsl:template match="question" >
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFE0">
<td width="50%"><xsl:value-of select="stem"/></td>
<td width="25%" align="center"><asp:RadioButton id="RadioButton1" runat="server"></asp:RadioButton><xsl:value-of select="distractor1" /> </td>
<td width="25%" align="center"><xsl:value-of select="distractor2" /></td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>

cbittner

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I am closing this because based on ethoths reply I am getting where I need to be.

cbittner

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Actually after further review, I'm not thrilled with using xslt to build the question, adding server controls to the page is a nightmare.