How do i get a local XML to be used in HTML page?

My requirement is to get a local XML file and use its contents to upload it further to the server. But i am unable to access the XML file through this code.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#btnUpload").click(function(e) {
        //e.preventDefault();
        $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: "C:\AnonymousLocation\XMLTransactionEmp.xml",
            dataType: "xml",
            async: false,
            success: parseXml
        });

        function parseXml() 
            alert("Here");
        }
    });
});

Now what I want is to get the XMLTransactionEmp.xml file to display its contents in my page but the control is not going in to the parseXml method. How do I do it?