Question

What's the name of the XML element?

Answer 1

I don't see any XML attached — could you paste the XML or the element you mean? If you want to find the element name yourself, here are quick ways to do it and what to look for.

What to look for in the file
- The element name is the text in the opening tag, e.g. in <book id="1"> the element name (tag name) is book.
- If there is a namespace prefix like <ns:Item>, the qualified name is "ns:Item" and the local name is "Item". The namespace URI is declared with xmlns or xmlns:ns.

Command-line / tools
- xmllint (root name): xmllint --xpath 'name(/*)' file.xml
- grep/basic view: open the file and find the first non-declaration opening tag after <?xml ...?>; that tag name is the root element.

In code
- Python (ElementTree):
- tree = ET.parse('file.xml'); root = tree.getroot(); root.tag gives the tag (may include {namespace}local)
- local name: root.tag.split('}',1)[1] if it starts with '{'
- JavaScript (browser/Node DOM):
- element.nodeName (qualified name) or element.localName (local name)
- Java (W3C DOM):
- element.getTagName() (qualified) or element.getLocalName() (local)

If you paste the XML (or the tag/line), I’ll tell you the element name.