Printing XmlElement names in PowerShell

Question 1

I have a XML document:

<Root>
  <ItemA Name="1" />
  <ItemB Name="2" />
  <ItemC Name="3" />
</Root>

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and a powershell script accessing data from that document. I need to iterate by the children of Root and print the element names of its children. Example:

$xml = [xml](gc MyXmlFile.xml);

$xml.Root.Name 
# prints "Root"

$xml.Root.ChildNodes | foreach { $_.Name } 
# prints 1 2 3 because Item(A|B|C) have an attribute named "Name"
# I need to print ItemA ItemB ItemC

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$xml = [xml](gc MyXmlFile.xml);

$xml.Root.Name

# prints "Root"

$xml.Root.ChildNodes | foreach { $_.Name }

# prints 1 2 3 because Item(A|B|C) have an attribute named "Name"

# I need to print ItemA ItemB ItemC

Update: As MrKWatkins correctly pointed out below in this case I could use the LocalName property instead. However this will not work if I’m using namespaces of if I also have a LocalName attribute in my XML. I would like to know if exists a solution for this problem that always works no matter the XML file.

Question 2

You can do something like this:

$xml.Root | gm -MemberType property | select Name

1 2	$xml.Root \| gm -MemberType property \| select Name

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