How to get tag name of root element in an XML document w/ XSLT?

Question

I\'m interested in assigning the tag name of the root element in an xml document to an xslt variable. For instance, if the document looked like (minus the DTD):

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Answer 1

Use the XPath name() function.

One XPath expression to obtain the name of the top (not root!) element is:

       name(/*)

The name() function returns the fully-qualified name of the node, so for an element the string "bar:foo" will be returned.

In case only the local part of the name is wanted (no prefix and ":"), then the XPath local-name() function should be used.