How to read XML using Javascript?

The Document Object Model (DOM) as implemented in MSXML provides a programmatic representation of XML documents, fragments, nodes, or node-sets. It also provides an application programming interface for working with XML data.

The following JScript fragments outline the basic process of programming with XML DOM.

var xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

Example:

function loadXML(xmlFilePath) 
{
  try //Internet Explorer
  {
    xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
  }
  catch(e)
  {
    try //Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, etc.
    {
      xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
    }
    catch(e) 
    {
      alert(e.message)
    }
  }
  try 
  {
    xmlDoc.async=false;
    xmlDoc.load(xmlFilePath); // xmlFilePath - xml file path Ex: test.xml
    return(xmlDoc);
  }
  catch(e) 
  {
    alert(e.message)
  }
  return(null);
}