parse XML file

I have to read an xml file and push the data into a SharePoint list.  I know how to push data to a SharePoint list, but this is a question on reading the XML file.

The xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?><data dbname="books"><record link="www.ebooks.com"><item name="AN">1234</item><item name="Title"><subitem name="TitleValue">How it works</subitem><subitem name="TitleLang">English</subitem></item><item name="TypeDoc">Book Summary</item><item name="Supplied"><subitem name="AbstractText">success</item></item></data>
I need to get the values of each tag and dump into a table with the column names the same as the attribute names