XPath / XQuery: find text in a node, but ignoring content of specific descendant elements

Question

I am trying to find a way to search for a string within nodes, but excluding ythe content of some subelements of those nodes. Plain and simple, I want to search for a string in

Answer 1

For the record, as a complement to the other answers, I've found this workaround that also seems to do the job:

//p[contains(child::text()|not(descendant::footnote), "text")]