XML parsing c# in unity

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.