XML Data Set selection by attribute?

I am new to Spry and was trying to work with the XML Data Set
feature. I have an XML file with the schema listed below. I wanted
to know if it were possible to only grab the data from this XML
file if it matches a certain type? For example, grab data from
seminarType where @type="condition1"? Is this able to be done or
will I have to generate an XML file for each type? My goals was to
have one large file to grab data from.
<seminars>
<seminarType type="">
<seminarSession type="">
<seminar>
<location><![CDATA[]]></location>
<date></date>
<time></time>
<seats></seats>
<directions><![CDATA[]]></directions>
</seminar>
</seminarSession>
</seminarType>
</seminars>

The seminar node contains all the information I want to grab.
I need to be able to select those nodes based off seminarType @type
and then seminarSession @type.
Example:
<seminars>
<seminarType type="type1">
<seminarSession type="session1">
<seminar>
<location><![CDATA[location]]></location>
<date>12-12-2007</date>
<time>14:00</time>
<seats>23</seats>
<directions><![CDATA[mapquest
directions]]></directions>
</seminar>
</seminarSession>
<seminarSession type="session2">
<seminar>
<location><![CDATA[location]]></location>
<date>10-08-2007</date>
<time>10:00</time>
<seats>15</seats>
<directions><![CDATA[mapquest
directions]]></directions>
</seminar>
</seminarSession>
</seminarType>
</seminars>
So I would want to grab all the session nodes where
seminarType @type="type1" and seminarSession @type="session1"
Does this help?

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