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.

Solution 1

Just pass the XElement to the constructor of XDocument:

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

Solution 2

I've had great success with this:

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

Comments

[Darek]

If it is a new XElement, you could also grab the Document property.

[John Saunders]

Is XElement.Document always non-null?