Accessing the Previous Attribute with the PreviousAttribute Property
using System; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; using System.Collections.Generic; class Program//from w ww. j a va2 s . c o m { static void Main(string[] args){ // we will use this to store a reference to one of the elements in the XML tree. XElement firstParticipant; XDocument xDocument = new XDocument( new XElement("Books", firstParticipant = new XElement("Book", new XAttribute("type", "Author"), new XAttribute("experience", "first-time"), new XAttribute("language", "English"), new XElement("FirstName", "Joe"), new XElement("LastName", "Ruby")))); Console.WriteLine(firstParticipant.FirstAttribute.NextAttribute.PreviousAttribute); } }