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parent

Returns the parent node of the receiver.

Declaration

@NSCopying var parent: XMLNode? { get }

Discussion

Document nodes and standalone nodes (that is, the root of a detached branch of a tree) have no parent, and sending this message to them returns nil. A one-to-one relationship does not always exists between a parent and its children; although a namespace or attribute node cannot be a child, it still has a parent element.

See Also

Navigating the Tree of Nodes