Functions Related to QNames - local-name-from-QName
Applies to: 
SQL Server
Returns an xs:NCNAME that represents the local part of QName specified by $arg. The result is an empty sequence if $arg is the empty sequence.
Syntax
fn:local-name-from-QName($arg as xs:QName?) as xs:NCName?
Arguments
$arg
Is the QName that the local name should be extracted from.
Examples
This topic provides XQuery examples against XML instances that are stored in various xml type columns in the AdventureWorks2022 database.
The following example uses the local-name-from-QName() function to retrieve the local name and namespace URI parts from a QName type value. The example performs the following:
Creates an XML schema collection.
Creates a table with an xml type column. The xml type is typed using the XML schema collection.
Stores a sample XML instance in the table. Using the query() method of the xml data type, the query expression is executed to retrieve the local name part of the QName type value from the instance.
DROP TABLE T
go
DROP XML SCHEMA COLLECTION SC
go
CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION SC AS '
<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="QNameXSD" >
<element name="root" type="QName" nillable="true"/>
</schema>'
go
CREATE TABLE T (xmlCol XML(SC))
go
-- following OK
insert into T values ('<root xmlns="QNameXSD" xmlns:a="https://someURI">a:someLocalName</root>')
go
-- Retrieve the local name.
SELECT xmlCol.query('declare default element namespace "QNameXSD"; local-name-from-QName(/root[1])')
FROM T
-- Result = someLocalName
-- You can retrieve namespace URI part from the QName using the namespace-uri-from-QName() function
SELECT xmlCol.query('declare default element namespace "QNameXSD"; namespace-uri-from-QName(/root[1])')
FROM T
-- Result = https://someURI