Case Study: Implementing Navigation in the Wiki Application with an Xml Control

Xml controls can be used to render the main content or navigational controls in a typical AJAX application. In the following code samples, I explain how to implement a navigational control from XML entries listing the contents of the knowledge base. We’ve already developed the XSLT based on the topics list from the Catalog service. All that is left is to wire up navigation events between the navigation control and the wiki control.

When you are rendering links for navigation, you might want to make it clear to the user that the link is indeed clickable. To do that, you can add the following style rule to the CSS for the application:

a { color:Blue; text-decoration:'underline'; ...

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