How to convert XElement to XDocument

Question

How can I convert XElement into XDocument? Is there some built-in method for this? The only way I can think of is without new XDocument(xelement.ToString()) which will result in creating big strings and then parsing them, thus reducing the performance.

I have some code that uses XDocument while i have XElement, don't want to rewrite it — atikot, Jul 06 '14 at 15:14
i actually tried it, "Task.Run(parser.GetEvent(new XDocument(outXe)));" but saw an error , thought it was because of the conversion, turned out i was missing the ()=> — atikot, Jul 06 '14 at 15:17

score 53 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 10 '14 at 23:22

53

Just pass the XElement to the constructor of XDocument:

var xdoc = new XDocument(new XElement("a", "b"));

edited Jul 10 '14 at 23:22

Sergey Berezovskiy

232,247
41
429
459

answered Jul 06 '14 at 15:15

EZI

15,209
2
27
33

4

If it is a new `XElement`, you could also grab the `Document` property. – Darek Jul 06 '14 at 15:30
4

Is `XElement.Document` always non-null? – John Saunders Jul 11 '14 at 01:41

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '15 at 10:23

4

I've had great success with this:

var xDoc = XDocument.Load(xml.CreateReader());

answered Sep 12 '15 at 10:23

rorpage

41
2

How to convert XElement to XDocument

2 Answers2