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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>
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If you need to retrieve the plain-text string inside that <span> element, namely "Me", you can use evaluate instead of query:

$xp->evaluate('string(//span[@id="loginName"])')

This is probably more what you're looking for. It returns:

string(2) "Me"

Probably this is helpful, otherwise, what Jon wrote.

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

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