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XElement.AncestorsAndSelf Method

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Returns a collection of elements that contain this element, and the ancestors of this element.

This member is overloaded. For complete information about this member, including syntax, usage, and examples, click a name in the overload list.

	Name	Description
	AncestorsAndSelf()	Returns a collection of elements that contain this element, and the ancestors of this element.
	AncestorsAndSelf(XName)	Returns a filtered collection of elements that contain this element, and the ancestors of this element. Only elements that have a matching XName are included in the collection.

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The elements in the returned collection are in reverse document order.

This method uses deferred execution.

XElement Class

Ancestors

Processing XML Data with LINQ to XML (Silverlight)

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