var xmlDoc = null;
 
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
	xmlDoc = new XMLHttpRequest();
	if (xmlDoc.overrideMimeType) {
		xmlDoc.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
	}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
	try {
		xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
	} catch (e) {
		try {
			xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (e) {}
	}
}
xmlDoc.onreadystatechange = function() {
	if(xmlDoc.readyState==4) {
		xmlObj = xmlDoc.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('changedate').item(0);
 
		var sDate = xmlObj.getElementsByTagName('date').item(0).firstChild.data;
 
		var chDate=new Date(sDate);
		alert(chDate);
	}
}
xmlDoc.open("GET", "datechanged.xml", true);
xmlDoc.send(null);

 
var xmlDoc
function loadXML()
{
//Code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject)
  {
  xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
  xmlDoc.async=false;
  xmlDoc.load("datechanged.xml");
  getmessage()
  }
//Code for Mozilla
else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
  {
  xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
  xmlDoc.load("datechanged.xml");
  xmlDoc.onload=getmessage
  }
else
  {
  alert('Your browser cannot handle this script');
  }
}
 
function getmessage()
{
	alert(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('changedate').item(0).getElementsByTagName('date').item(0).firstChild.data);
}
 
loadXML();