Android:Unable to read from xml

While trying to read from xml , I am getting IO Exception.

Following is the code

File xmlFile = new File("\\assets\\data\\data.xml");
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = dBuilder.parse(xmlFile);

dBuilder.parse(xmlFile) is throwing an IO Exception.

I have tried new File("/assets/data/data.xml") and new File("assets/data/data.xml") also but with no use. What could be the possible error and how can it be solved?