Question

considering you’re searching just one specific value is there to get the only and first result directly without parsing the result with foreach?
Like this:

$elements = $dom_xpath->query('//span[@id="loginName"]');


echo $elements->firstNode->nodeValue; // this doesn't exist of course

the html code is

<div>
  <div id="name">text<span id="loginName">Me</span></div>
</div>

Answer 1

If you are sure there will be a match, you can use

echo $dom_xpath->query('//span[@id="loginName"]')->item(0)->nodeValue;