XML : VB.net how to create table using xml and displaying the table on the webpage

Can somebody please help me to amend this code because i tried running but the table didnt appear on the page. I'm new to XML and somebody gave me this snippet saying that XML coding is more reliable for tables.

The code probably works but i dont know how to display it to the page. I tried searching but i saw that many also did nearly the same thing but why didnt it work for me? While, some others made another xml file to keep the data, but in my case, i'm actually planning to retrieve data from a MS SQL 2005 database and display it in a table. What am i missing here?

  Dim dt As DataTable = Me.GetData()      For Each row As DataRow In dt.Rows          Dim tr As XElement = <tr></tr>            For Each column In dt.Columns              Dim td As XElement = <td></td>              td.Value = row(column.Ordinal).ToString()                tr.Add(td)          Next            table.Add(tr)      Next