(New user of xamDataGrid 8.1)

My ultimate goal is to be able to perform my logic in my viewmodel class.

I am binding the grid to an XmlDataProvider, and currently I've got it to work sort of by hooking the SelectedItemsChanging event and adding a dummy xml attribute to the bound data indicating if it is selected or not. While seems to work it feels like a hack.

Would it possible to directly bind the IsSelected of a datarecord to an xml attribute?

Is there a better way to make the viewmodel aware of currently selected items/records without taking a reference to the grid?