XML parsing c# in unity

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Hello,

I am new to parsing xml using c# in unity, and i just want to ask what is the best way to parse an xml file in the assets folder.

i was doing some researches and found out 2 ways to do it:

  -the first using serialization (using System.Xml.Serialization)
  -the second using XmlNodes for each node and place data manually in an object, here is a code blow:
   

  

 public team [] getTeamsFromXml(){
         int i = 0;
         team [] teams = new team[2];
         XmlNodeList teamsNode = doc.SelectNodes ("MM_MTracker/match/teams/team");
 
         foreach (XmlNode node in teamsNode) {
             team tm = new team();
             tm.id = int.Parse (node.SelectSingleNode ("id").InnerText);     
             tm.label = node.SelectSingleNode ("label").InnerText;     
             tm.flag =  node.SelectSingleNode ("flag").InnerText;     
             tm.direction =  int.Parse ( node.SelectSingleNode ("direction").InnerText     );
 
             teams[i] = tm;
             i++;
       
         }
 
         return teams;
 
 
     }

What is the best methode and is there any more options?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Answer by Tiras69 · Jul 07, 2014 at 01:14 PM

Hi ! I think you should use System.Xml.serialization this allow you to create model classes. here a tutorial. in your case you will have something like that :

 [XmlRoot("root")]
 public class XmlFile{
    
    [XmlArray("teams")]
    [XmlArrayItem("team", typeof(Team))]
    public List<Team> Teams { get; set; }
 
    public XmlFile(){
       Teams = new List<Team>();
    }
 
 }
 
 [XmlRoot("team")]
 public class Team{
 
    [XmlAttribute("id")]
    public string Id { get; set; }
    
    [XmlAttribute("label")]
    public string Label { get; set; }
 
    [XmlAttribute("flag")]
    public string Flag { get; set; }
 
    [XmlAttribute("direction")]
    public string Direction { get; set; }
 }

But, It's my personnal choice. I use this method to make a big data-driven project.

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thanks for your help!!

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