jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

DEAD ISSUE for the moment... NEEd to solve just getting data into grid first.

I have an xml document which uses the xml element attritubute, such as the "dodic" in the following example:

<chemical dodic="k866″>
    <weaponType>smoke</weaponType>
</chemical>

I am trying to set up my jqGrid to be able to use element attributes, either in the xmlReader or colModel portion of the script.  Looking through the documentation, I don't see an example of how it is accomplished.  I am using static xml document as my data source.  If I need to restructure the xml to move this attribute into its own element, I would like to do it now.

Does anyone have a suggestion??

Here is my controller script:

$('#chem li').click(function() {
        $('#welcome').css('display', 'none');
        $('#searchResults').jqGrid({
            url: 'weaponLib/AME_chem.xml',
            datatype: 'xml',
            colNames:["DODIC","NSN", "Nomenclature"],
               colModel:[
                   {name:"dodic",index:"dodic", width:120, xmlmap:"ItemAttributes>Author"},
                   {name:"NSN",index:"NSN", width:180,xmlmap:"chemical>transData>NSN"},
                   {name:"nomenclature",index:"nomenclature", width:100, align:"right",xmlmap:"chemical>nomenclature", sorttype:"float"}
                ],
            height:250,
            width: 700,
            rowNum:10,
            rowList:[10,20,30],
            viewrecords: true,
            loadonce: true,
            xmlReader: {
                    root : "chemicals",
                    row: "chemical",
                    repeatitems: false,
                    id: "ASIN"
                },
            caption: "Chemical Weapon Results"
        });
        
        $('#theGrid').css('display', 'block');
        
    });

Tony