How to sort my objects list by date which is returned from server by a ajax call

I send an Ajax call to server, then server returns me the xml data which contain a list of objects. Each object in the list contain a "date" attribute.

In the success function of the Ajax call, I would like to populate each object in a row of a html table, but before this, I would like to sort the objects by date ascending order based on the "date" attribute of each object. I am wondering what is the efficient way to do this?

$.ajax({
    type : "GET",
    url : MY_URL_1,
    dataType : "xml",
    success : function(xml) {

               $(xml).find("DOCUMENT").each(function() {
               var eachXMLdata = $(this);
               var date = eachXMLdata.children("DATE").text();

               // I can check each object's date here
               console.log('date:'+date);

               /*** How to sort the object by date??****/

               //I will show each object in a开发者_C百科 row of a html table here
               // ...
             });
       }
});

As you saw above, I used the .each() function in Ajax success() function to loop through each object and will show each object in a row of a html table.

Well , If you do have to do it on client side , construct Date objects with the text , and then you can the getTime() function to get the milliseconds since epoch , which should be easily comaparable .

Refer below for the Date object API http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp