How to get the tag name using Linq to XML

Question

If you have an XElement obj how do you get the tag name of the xelement object?

doc.Descendants("name").Where(x => (string) x == cit.name).FirstOrDefault().Parent

i would like to get the tagname of this xelement object.

Answer 1

doc.Descendants("name").Where(x => (string) x.Attribute("") == cit.name).FirstOrDefault().Parent

Answer 2

Once you have the right XElement, you can use Name property like so:

<someNamespace:someElement attr="blah"/>

string name = element.Name.LocalName;
//will get "someElement"