this is part of  search.xslt   
<xsl:choose>						<xsl:when test="$SearchName='SearchTalent'">
<td width="60%">
	<asp:DropDownList  DataSource ="sqlEmployee"  DataSourceID="CodEmployee" 
DataTextField="Surname" >
	</asp:DropDownList>
<xsl:otherwise>
<td  class="TableCell" >
<input  type="text" id="{@Id}" name="{@Id}" value="" 
class="InputStandardBorder"></input>				
</td>					
</xsl:otherwise>

in Search.aspx 

<asp:SqlDataSource ID="sqlEmployee"  runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ 
ConnectionStrings:gsConnTalentPool %>"
        SelectCommand="SELECT  CodEmployee, Surname, Name FROM tbEmployees " 
></asp:SqlDataSource>

Tank you for your replay
 Lore

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> lore wrote:
> > How to populate asp dropdownlist with xslt?
> 
> XSLT transforms an input tree, usually generated by parsing an XML 
> document, into a result tree that can be optionally serialized as XML or 
> HTML or plain text. I am not sure what kind of "asp dropdownlist" you 
> are talking about. If that is classic ASP then a dropdownlist is nothing 
> but a HTML select element so you would simply write an XSLT stylesheet 
> that creates a HTML document with an HTML select form element. If you 
> are talking about ASP.NET and a server-side ASP.NET control for a 
> dropdownlist then that is more difficult to achieve with XSLT and you 
> might consider alternative options such as databinding.
> 
> In any case you might want to show us the relevant part of your XML from 
> which you want to extract the data to populate the dropdown.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
>