Traversing Up from an XElement Object via the Parent Property : Traverse : XML LINQ C# Source Code

    
 
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        XElement firstParticipant;
        XDocument xDocument =  new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", "yes"),
        new XDocumentType("Books", null, "Books.dtd", null),
        new XProcessingInstruction("Book", "out-of-print"),
        new XElement("Books", firstParticipant =
        new XElement("Book",
        new XAttribute("type", "Author"),
        new XElement("FirstName", "J"),
        new XElement("LastName", "R")),
        new XElement("Book",
        new XAttribute("type", "Author"),
        new XElement("FirstName", "E"),
        new XElement("LastName", "B"))));

        Console.WriteLine(firstParticipant.Parent);

    }
}