I've got a web app that requires a user to specify the path to a datasource (xml) file for processing. Instead of doing a file-upload inside of an ASP.Net page and actually transferring the XML file ...

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But all the examples I can find seem to require the use of a file input form element with the runat=server property set.<BR><BR>Since my pages return XML the aspx files are empty accept for the page ...