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Asked: 2026-06-08T17:25:05+00:00

Is there a way I can get the document root from a child Element

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Is there a way I can get the document root from a child Element or Node? I am migrating from a library that works with any of Document, Element or Node to one that works only with Document. eg.

From:

element.xpath('/a/b/c') # 4Suite

to:

xpath.find('/a/b/c', doc) # pydomxpath
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    Node objects have an ownerDocument property that refers to the Document object associated with the node. See http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#node-ownerDoc.

    This property is not mentioned in the Python documentation, but it’s available. Example:

    from xml.dom import minidom

XML = """
<root>
   <x>abc</x>
   <y>123</y>
</root>"""

dom = minidom.parseString(XML)
x = dom.getElementsByTagName('x')[0]

print x
print x.ownerDocument

    Output:

    <DOM Element: x at 0xc57cd8>
<xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x00C1CC60>
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