How to select a node's first child name? XPath

Question

I have an XML from which I have to select the name of the child of one of the nodes. I\'m kind of a beginner in this, so I didn\'t find the Xpath expression to do it. I know the

Answer 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])