You can use it like this http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_xmlfile.asp.
My psychic debugging powers tell me that you're hitting the cross-origin security checks in your browser. In particular, a webpage loaded from a file:// url generally can't access other documents at file:// urls. If you happen to be using Firefox, setting the security.fileuri.
Strict_origin_policy preference to false in about:config will let it work. The other option is to serve both files from a real web server, and from the same domain.
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