Easiest way to grab an xml nodes value?

[tiki]

I tried domxpath but failed. So whats an easy way to grab the value "Swordsman" and return it.

 

<human>
<units>
	<light>
		<name>Swordsman</name>
	</light>
</units>
</human>

[joquius]

document.getElementsByTagName('name')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; but thats js

[tiki]

document.getElementsByTagName('name')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue; but thats js

 

And this is a php forum

[joquius]

well I don't know, preg_match_all ("/<name>[^<]*<\/name>/", $xml, $names);

 

and if you like foreach ($names[0] as $name) $_names[] = preg_replace ("/<name>([^<]*)<\/name>/", "$1", $name);