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How to get the name of an HTML element in XPath?
To get the name of the selected element in XPath the name() function can be used. This function returns the name of the closest element in the current context.
The name() function is useful in HTML parsing in broad selection cases like selecting multiple names. See this interactive example:
Above, we're selecting only paragraph and link elements by using wildcard match (the * symbol) and a name() matching predicate.
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