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As defined in the W3 XPath 1.0 Spec, " child::node() selects all the children of the context node, whatever their node type." This means that any element, text-node, comment-node and processing-instruction node children are selected by this node-test.
"last() method" selects the last element (of mentioned type) out of all input element present.
By adding square brackets with index. By using position () method in xpath.
You wrote:
I have to select the first child of Department node
You could use:
/Employee/Department/*[1]
Then, you also wrote:
I have an XML from which I have to select the name of the child of one of the nodes
So, you could use:
name(/Employee/Department/*[1])
I don't know the exact context of your XML, but I believe this is the XPath you are looking for...
/Employee/Department/*[1]
The key part of this XPath is *[1], which will select the node value of the first child of Department.
If you need the name of the node, then you will want to use this...
name(/Employee/Department/*[1])
You need something like:
local-name(/Employee/Department/*[1])
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