How do I return '' for an empty node's text() in XPath?

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Published on 2010-03-10T21:23:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 19:24 UTC
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<td></td><td>foo</td>

I would like to return ['', 'foo'] but libxml's xpath //td/text() returns just ['foo']. How do I find the empty tag as '' instead of (not matched)?

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