XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

name( )

Synopsis

                     string name( )
string name(node-set nodes)

With no arguments, this function returns the qualified (prefixed) name of the context node or the empty string if the context node does not have a name (e.g., it’s a comment or root node). With a node-set as an argument, it returns the qualified name of the first node in the node-set. If the node-set is empty or if the set’s first node does not have a name, then it returns the empty string.