XObject.Parent Property

If this XObject has no parent element, this property returns null.

Note
This property returns the parent element, and as children nodes of an XDocument have no parent element, this property returns null for them.

The following example uses this method.

XDocument doc = new XDocument(
    new XComment("A comment in the document."),
    new XElement("Root",
        new XElement("Child", "content")
    )
);
XElement child = doc.Descendants("Child").First();
XElement root = child.Parent;
Console.WriteLine(root.Name);

This example produces the following output:

Root

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