Retrieving XML element name using t-SQL

Question

If I have:

  
    john
    something or other
  
  

        

Answer 1

Actually, sorry, the best I've got is:

select distinct r.value('fn:local-name(.)', 'nvarchar(50)') as t
FROM
    @xml.nodes('//quotes/*/*') AS records(r)

Guess I answered my own question...