Thanks so much for the reply.... i will follow it from now on

Now my xml file looks like 

ConfigFile.xml
****************

<config>
	<table name="contract">
        <columnname>DATE extract</columnname> 
        <columnname>DATE_deleted</columnname>
	</table>
	<table name="contract_hist">
        <columnname>DATE1</columnname> 
        <columnname>DATE2</columnname>
	</table>
	<table name="address">
        <columnname>DATE1</columnname> 
        <columnname>DATE2</columnname>
	<columnname>DATE3</columnname>
	</table>
</config>


I read my config xml file, for "address" i should get 3 date values(DATE1,DATE2 and DATE3)

How can i do this in code?? Please help
</config>