Selecting only the first item of an xpath result set in PHP

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Published on 2010-05-06T03:01:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 3:08 UTC
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I am currently achieving the desired outcome with two PHP statements:

$thisBlarg = $xmlResource->xpath('//blarg[@ID='.$someBlargID.']');
echo $thisBlarg[0]->name;

But, not wanting to settle for second best, I'd really prefer this to be one statement, but PHP doesn't like this:

echo $xmlResource->xpath('//blarg[@ID='.$someBlargID.']')[0]->name;

And for good reason. But I can't find a way to force an xpath query to return the result directly. Any suggestions?

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