How do I read XML on iPhone?

Here is how to do it:

1. Put your XML file in the resources folder in your project (that is, Assets/Resources/).

2. Rename it so that it has .txt extension.

3. In your code, use this to load the file as a TextAsset:

   TextAsset textAsset = (TextAsset)Resources.Load(filename, typeof(TextAsset));

4. From here, you can get it into XMLDocument, if that is what you want.

   XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); xmlDoc.Load(new StringReader(textAsset.text));

If you want to serialise / deserialise classes into XML, the following utility functions will do the trick, as long as the path is somewhere in the resource folder, and files are named with the .txt extension:

 public static T DeserializeTextAsset<T>(string filename)
 {
     TextAsset textAsset = (TextAsset)Resources.Load(filename, typeof(TextAsset));

     if(textAsset == null)
     {
         Debug.LogError("Could not load text asset " + filename);
     }

     return DeserializeString<T>(textAsset.ToString());
 }

 //filename an object from an XML string.
 public static T DeserializeString<T>(string xml)
 {
     XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
     StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml);
     XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(stringReader);
     T obj = (T)serializer.Deserialize(xmlReader);

     xmlReader.Close();
     stringReader.Close();

     return obj;
 } 

 public static void SerializeObject<T>(string filename, T data)
 {
     XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
     TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(filename);
     serializer.Serialize(textWriter, data);
     textWriter.Close();
 }