gh-93607: document `root` attribute of `iterparse` (#99410)

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Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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*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