XPath select tags by id not descendants of

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Published on 2010-05-18T12:28:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 12:30 UTC
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I have the following code and I have to select all the nodes with id="text" but not the nodes that already have a parent with id="text":

test00 test01 test02 * test03 *

so in this example the query have to return only the two fo:block with content test00 and test03.

Thank you.

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