XML / XPATH data field filter

Hopefully you will only need xpath knowledge to answer this. Don't let the data islands put you off !!!

In internet explorer, you can bind a table to an xml data island as follows:

<xml id="xmlsource">
<root><record><field1>1</field1><field2>Hello</field2></record><record><field1>2</field1><field2>World</field2></record></root>
</xml>

<table datasrc="#xmlsource">
<tr>
<td>
<span datafld="field1"></span>
</td>
<td>
<span datafld="field2"></span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Now when I add attributes to the xml root node, the binding stops working. e.g. attr1 in <root attr1="12">

Here's how to fix it:

<root attr1="12"><record><field1>1</field1><field2>Hello</field2></record><record><field1>2</field1><field2>World</field2></record></root>

<table datasrc="#xmlsource" datafld="record">

the extra DATAFLD clause at table level fixes the problem

Question is:

Is there a way of fixing this problem without hard coding the name of the first child node ("record" in this case). I thought perhaps some mixture of slashes and dots might do it ???

<table datasrc="#xmlsource" datafld="youranswerinhereplease">