[3.11] gh-93607: document root attribute of iterparse (GH-99410) (#111556)

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@ -622,7 +622,9 @@ Functions
*parser* is an optional parser instance. If not given, the standard
:class:`XMLParser` parser is used. *parser* must be a subclass of
:class:`XMLParser` and can only use the default :class:`TreeBuilder` as a
target. Returns an :term:`iterator` providing ``(event, elem)`` pairs.
target. Returns an :term:`iterator` providing ``(event, elem)`` pairs;
it has a ``root`` attribute that references the root element of the
resulting XML tree once *source* is fully read.
Note that while :func:`iterparse` builds the tree incrementally, it issues
blocking reads on *source* (or the file it names). As such, it's unsuitable