You may try like this ..
 
  <xsl:template match="p">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="span" />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="span">
    <xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space(following-sibling::text()[1])"
/>
  </xsl:template>

(This is not tested)

Regards,
Mukul

--- jpk <jopaki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'lo all,
> 
> I need to isolate text 'Root level text'
> 
> from xml source:
> 
> <p>
>   <span>whatever</span>
>   Root level text
> 
> </p>
> 
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