Re: [xml] xpath and element names

["Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <Tom Kralidis ec gc ca>]

> 
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:05:20PM -0500, Kralidis,Tom 
> [Burlington] wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using libxml2 Version: 2.6.29 on fc7, with the xpath 
> > functionality, to parse an XML document.
> [...]
> > Line 83 shows an attempt to fetch the name of the root element, but 
> > I'm not getting any results.  What's the approach to 
> fetching the name 
> > of an element in libxml2's xpath support?
> 
>   in XPath it's name() / local-name() see the spec, of course 
> it's the same in libxml2 !
> 
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-name
> 
> For XPath querying example:
>     http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#XPath
> 

Thanks for the info.  I'm in a situation where I need to know the root
element name before further processing.

So to get the element name does one use xmlXPathEval with an xpath of
"name(/*)" or xmlXPathEvalExpression with an xpath of "/*" ?  

Furthermore, to fetch the resulting string, is this stored in
xmlNodeSet->nodeTab[0]->name or xmlXPathObject->stringval ?

Thanks for any advice

..Tom