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I want to use Blender as my level designer tool for an XNA game. Using an existing plugin, I can export my levels to DotScene format which is basically an xml file like this one:

<scene formatVersion="1.0.0">
  <nodes>
    <node name="scene-staircase.001">
      <position x="10.500000" y="1.400000" z="-9.600000"/>
      <quaternion x="0.000000" y="0.000000" z="-0.000000" w="1.000000"/>
      <scale x="1.000000" y="1.000000" z="1.000000"/>
      <entity name="scene-staircase.001" meshFile="staircase.mesh"/>
    </node>

    <node name="Lamp.003">
      <position x="11.024290" y="5.903862" z="9.658987"/>
      <quaternion x="-0.284166" y="0.726942" z="0.342034" w="0.523275"/>
      <scale x="1.000000" y="1.000000" z="1.000000"/>
      <light name="Spot.003" type="point">
        <colourDiffuse r="0.400000" g="0.154618" b="0.145180"/>
        <colourSpecular r="0.400000" g="0.154618" b="0.145180"/>
        <lightAttenuation range="5000.0" constant="1.000000" linear="0.033333" quadratic="0.000000"/>
      </light>
    </node>

    ...

  </nodes>
</scene>

Using naming conventions I could easily parse the file and load the correspondent in game content. I am new to XNA and I have seen that there are several methods to load XML files into a game like serializing and deserializing. Which one would you recommend?

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    \$\begingroup\$ I realized I can add my XML files as resources to the Content Manager specifying I don't want any binary conversion to take place and I want the files to get copied. Then, I can load the XML files as in a normal C# program. \$\endgroup\$
    – David Saltares
    Nov 29, 2011 at 15:15
  • \$\begingroup\$ If that's an answer you should put it in the answer section so that you can "accept" it and the question doesn't get bumped up because it's "unanswered". \$\endgroup\$
    – Tetrad
    Nov 29, 2011 at 16:01

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I would actually recommend using the newer XDocument class instead of XmlDocument. Check:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1542073/xdocument-or-xmldocument

According to that thread it's also compatible with XBox and WP7, but I haven't tried since I'm currently developing for Windows.

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I realized I can add my XML files as resources to the Content Manager specifying I don't want any binary conversion to take place and I want the files to get copied. Then, I can load the XML files as in a normal C# program:

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(Content.RootDirectory + "\\XML\\file.xml");
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Does this work on Xbox or WP7? \$\endgroup\$
    – Nate
    Nov 29, 2011 at 23:40
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    \$\begingroup\$ The answer is yes to both \$\endgroup\$
    – ClassicThunder
    Nov 30, 2011 at 1:41
  • \$\begingroup\$ Another option, is to create a custom content processor, which might be worth it, but is more involved. \$\endgroup\$
    – George Duckett
    Nov 30, 2011 at 15:53
  • \$\begingroup\$ The problem here is the loss of compression without the binary conversion. \$\endgroup\$
    – Sinthia V
    Jul 4, 2012 at 18:04

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