XmlElement Class XmlElement class is based on a class named XmlLinkedNode that itself is based on XmlNode. To access an XML element, we can declare a variable of type XmlElement but the main purpose of this class is to get an element from a DOM object. For this reason, the XmlElement class doesn't have a constructor you can use. - See more at: http://www.theappguruz.com/blog/unity-xml-parsing-unity#sthash.c2OLdLtC.dpuf