XPath to find text node that is a sibling of other nodes

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Published on 2010-04-21T16:57:22Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 17:13 UTC
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Given the following fragment of html:

<fieldset>
  <legend>My Legend</legend>
  <p>Some text</p>
  Text to capture
</fieldset>

Is there an xpath expression that will return only the 'Text to capture' text node?

Trying

/fieldset/text()

yields three nodes, not just the one I need.

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