How to return a string without spaces around the edges?

Question

XPath

Hello!
How to return the first text node of its parent without whitespace around the edges?
Node: XPath query: ...returns: "Hello " (with a space at the end). Is it possible, with just one XPath , to return strings without spaces "Hello"? Thank you!
<p>Hello <b>World</b> by.</p>
p/text()[normalize-space(.)][1]

Answer 1

p/normalize-space(text()[1])
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