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1.	Accessing Parent Nodes: parent( ) method can be used successively to access any ancestor node
2.	Retrieve an XMLList representing the element's children, and then invoke parent( ) on that list
3.	Invoking parent( ) on an XMLList with a single XML instance is identical to invoking parent( ) on that instance itself.
4.	attribute.parent() returns the element on which the attribute is defined.