Getting element’s name in XPATH

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Use name(). (Find docs for newer versions of the XPath language here.)

Here are modified versions of your example:

Works in XPath 2.0+ only:

//element/*[@id='elid']/name()

Works in XPath 1.0 and 2.0+*:

name(//element/*[@id='elid'])

*If using 2.0+, the expression //element/*[@id='elid'] must only return one element. Otherwise you’ll get an error like A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument of fn:name()

You could also use local-name() which returns the local part of the expanded name (without any namespace prefix).

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