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SweetXml - how to get the name of the root element of an XML document?

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SweetXml - how to get the name of the root element of an XML document?

I know there should be an “easy” way to do this, but I cannot seem to find it.
I want to get the name of the root element of an XML document, I am using SweetXml.

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iex> import SweetXml
iex> "<hello>world</hello>" |> SweetXml.parse() |> xpath(~x"name(/*)"s)
"hello"

Stolen from this GitHub issue response.

Side note: That issue thread, although short, taught me a lot of useful information.

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Thanks!
And it can be even shorter, as you don’t need to parse the document first.

xpath(doc, ~x"name(/*)"s)
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