[xquery-talk] Printing name of root node of an xml document

[Michael Rys]

Root() returns the document node that has no name. Do you want the
top-level node? Say name((fn:root(...)/*)[1]) instead.

HTH
Michael

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> Hello,
> 
> I want to print the name of the root node of an xml document. This
> doesn't seem to work:
> 
> fn:name(fn:root(fn:document("docs/xmark.xml")))
> 
> Can somebody please tell me what hte problem is?
> 
> Thanks,
> Padmapriya
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