Learning how to deserialize xml file

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I am VERY new to read/write from a file, especially in Unity. I want to know how do I take the contents of an xml file, like oh say:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-<DataContainer xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<userID>2497</userID>

<Name>John</Name>

<age>28</age>

<Hobby>Painting</Hobby>

<Career>Carpenter</Career>

<Name>Andrea</Name>

<age>18</age>

<Hobby>Music</Hobby>

<Career>Student</Career>


<Name>Rick</Name>

<age>31</age>

<Hobby>Swimming</Hobby>

<Career>Lifeguard</Career>

</DataContainer>

Then in a class in my project I am supposed to load this file from the xml. So far I managed to create the class and declare the variables I need top get the job done (or at least I hope I do)

using UnityEngine;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Text; 
using System.Collections;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class UserData : MonoBehaviour
{
    #region Properties
    [XmlAttribute("UserID")]
    public List<int> _userID { get; private set; }
    [XmlAttribute("Name")]
    public List<string> _Name { get; private set; }
	[XmlAttribute("Age")]
    public List<int> _Age { get; private set; }
    [XmlAttribute("Hobby")]
    public List<string> _Hobby { get; private set; }
    [XmlAttribute("Career")]
    public List<string> _Career { get; private set }
    #endregion

    public BrowseUserData()
    {
        _userID = new List<int>();
        _Name = new List<string>();
		_Age new List<int>();
        _Hobby = new List<string>();
        _Career = new List<string>();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// This function searches for the user files  
    /// </summary>
    public void OpenUserFiles(String xmlFile)
    {
        if (File.Exists(xmlFile))
        {
        }
        else
            Debug.LogError("Failed to find correct file path");
    }
     
}

That is how far I managed to get using this tutorial

but I get lost with my next step which is how to load each xml element into its respective variable.

Can anyone help me figure out if I am doing this correctly and how to read from the xml file correctly? Many Thanks in advance!

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I answered similar question in the past, and trying to help I discovered a decent tutorial. I suggest reading it: part 1, part 2.

As a side note - if you plan to use your class in serialization, don’t derive it from MonoBehaviour. Additionally, there’s an error in your code, because constructor name doesn’t match class name.