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localname is helpful. I missed it in the documentation. But it is only half the picture as it strips namespace information. Evven though it seems that namespaces are an abomination in XML I need to account for them. I am not generating the XML I have to eat.

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Re^4: Comparing nodes in LibXML
by tangent (Parson) on Sep 03, 2015 at 03:05 UTC
    You can get the prefix at the same time 
    my ($prefix,$name) = ( $node->prefix(), $node->localname() );

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      The prefix does not help as it is not unique

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