I'm sorry for the question but I'm doing this for the first time Here is my loadxml.js file for loading xml file\[code\]function loadXMLDoc(dname){if (window.XMLHttpRequest) xhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); else xhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); xhttp.open("GET",dname,true); xhttp.send(); return xhttp.responseXML;} \[/code\]now here is my html file whre using javascript i try to extract the nodes\[code\]<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script src="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13877151/loadxmldoc.js"></script></head><body><script>xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");document.write(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "<br>");document.write(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("author")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "<br>");document.write(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("year")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);</script></body></html>\[/code\]And Here is the xml file \[code\]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><bookstore> <book category="cooking"> <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title> <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author> <year>2005</year> <price>30.00</price> </book> - <book category="children"> <title lang="en">Harry Potter</title> <author>J K. Rowling</author> <year>2005</year> <price>29.99</price> </book> <book category="web"> <title lang="en">XQuery Kick Start</title> <author>James McGovern</author> <author>Per Bothner</author> <author>Kurt Cagle</author> <author>James Linn</author> <author>Vaidyanathan Nagarajan</author> <year>2003</year> <price>49.99</price> </book> <book category="web" cover="paperback"> <title lang="en">Learning XML</title> <author>Erik T. Ray</author> <year>2003</year> <price>39.95</price> </book> </bookstore>\[/code\]