XNode.Ancestors Method

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Returns a collection of the ancestor elements of this node.

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

Overload List

	Name	Description
	Ancestors()	Returns a collection of the ancestor elements of this node.
	Ancestors(XName)	Returns a filtered collection of the ancestor elements of this node. Only elements that have a matching XName are included in the collection.

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Remarks

Optionally a node name can be specified to filter for ancestor elements with a specific name.

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

This method uses deferred execution.

See Also

Reference

XNode Class

System.Xml.Linq Namespace

Other Resources

Processing XML Data with LINQ to XML (Silverlight)