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HTML

<xml>
<data>
<item type='String'>ABC</item>
<item type='Date'>
<Year>2015</Year>
<Month>May</Month>
<Day>24</Day>
</item>
</data>
</xml>
<div id="myDiv"></div>

JavaScript

var $xml = $("data");
var date = $xml.find('item[type="date"]');
var year = date.find('Year').text();
var month = date.find('Month').text();
var day = date.find('Day').text();

var parsedDate = year + '/' + month + '/' + day;

alert(parsedDate);