a lightly-modified version of the dojo/text.js AMD plugin, for use with apps that expect a global text! plugin

text.js

// a lightly-modified version of the dojo/text.js AMD plugin, for use with apps that expect a global text! plugin

define(["dojo/_base/kernel", "require", "dojo/has", "dojo/has!host-browser?dojo/_base/xhr"], function(dojo, require, has, xhr){
	// module:
	//		dojo/text
	// summary:
	//		This module implements the !dojo/text plugin and the dojo.cache API.
	// description:
	//		We choose to include our own plugin to leverage functionality already contained in dojo
	//		and thereby reduce the size of the plugin compared to various foreign loader implementations.
	//		Also, this allows foreign AMD loaders to be used without their plugins.
	//
	//		CAUTION: this module is designed to optionally function synchronously to support the dojo v1.x synchronous
	//		loader. This feature is outside the scope of the CommonJS plugins specification.

	var getText;
	if(has("host-browser")){
		getText= function(url, sync, load){
			xhr("GET", {url:url, sync:!!sync, load:load});
		};
	}else{
		// TODOC: only works for dojo AMD loader
		if(require.getText){
			getText= require.getText;
		}else{
			console.error("dojo/text plugin failed to load because loader does not support getText");
		}
	}

	var
		theCache= {},

		toAbsMid= has("dojo-loader") ?
			function(id, require){
				var result = require.toAbsMid(id + "/x");
				return result.substring(0, result.length-2);
			} :
			function(id, require){
				return require.toUrl(id);
			},

		strip= function(text){
			//Strips <?xml ...?> declarations so that external SVG and XML
			//documents can be added to a document without worry. Also, if the string
			//is an HTML document, only the part inside the body tag is returned.
			if(text){
				text= text.replace(/^\s*<\?xml(\s)+version=[\'\"](\d)*.(\d)*[\'\"](\s)*\?>/im, "");
				var matches= text.match(/<body[^>]*>\s*([\s\S]+)\s*<\/body>/im);
				if(matches){
					text= matches[1];
				}
			}else{
				text = "";
			}
			return text;
		},

		notFound = {},

		pending = {},

		result= {
			load:function(id, require, load){
				// id is something like (path may be relative):
				//
				//	 "path/to/text.html"
				//	 "path/to/text.html!strip"
				var
					parts= id.split("!"),
					stripFlag= parts.length>1,
					absMid= toAbsMid(parts[0], require),
					url = require.toUrl(parts[0]),
					text = notFound,
					finish = function(text){
						load(stripFlag ? strip(text) : text);
					};
				if(absMid in theCache){
					text = theCache[absMid];
				}else if(url in require.cache){
					text = require.cache[url];
				}else if(url in theCache){
					text = theCache[url];
				}
				if(text===notFound){
					if(pending[url]){
						pending[url].push(finish);
					}else{
						var pendingList = pending[url] = [finish];
						getText(url, !require.async, function(text){
							theCache[absMid]= theCache[url]= text;
							for(var i = 0; i<pendingList.length;){
								pendingList[i++](text);
							}
							delete pending[url];
						});
					}
				}else{
					finish(text);
				}
			}
		};

		dojo.cache= function(/*String||Object*/module, /*String*/url, /*String||Object?*/value){
			//	 * (string string [value]) => (module, url, value)
			//	 * (object [value])        => (module, value), url defaults to ""
			//
			//	 * if module is an object, then it must be convertable to a string
			//	 * (module, url) module + (url ? ("/" + url) : "") must be a legal argument to require.toUrl
			//	 * value may be a string or an object; if an object then may have the properties "value" and/or "sanitize"
			var key;
			if(typeof module=="string"){
				if(/\//.test(module)){
					// module is a version 1.7+ resolved path
					key = module;
					value = url;
				}else{
					// module is a version 1.6- argument to dojo.moduleUrl
					key = require.toUrl(module.replace(/\./g, "/") + (url ? ("/" + url) : ""));
				}
			}else{
				key = module + "";
				value = url;
			}
			var
				val = (value != undefined && typeof value != "string") ? value.value : value,
				sanitize = value && value.sanitize;

			if(typeof val == "string"){
				//We have a string, set cache value
				theCache[key] = val;
				return sanitize ? strip(val) : val;
			}else if(val === null){
				//Remove cached value
				delete theCache[key];
				return null;
			}else{
				//Allow cache values to be empty strings. If key property does
				//not exist, fetch it.
				if(!(key in theCache)){
					getText(key, true, function(text){
						theCache[key]= text;
					});
				}
				return sanitize ? strip(theCache[key]) : theCache[key];
			}
		};

		return result;

/*=====
dojo.cache = function(module, url, value){
	// summary:
	//		A getter and setter for storing the string content associated with the
	//		module and url arguments.
	// description:
	//		If module is a string that contains slashes, then it is interpretted as a fully
	//		resolved path (typically a result returned by require.toUrl), and url should not be
	//		provided. This is the preferred signature. If module is a string that does not
	//		contain slashes, then url must also be provided and module and url are used to
	//		call `dojo.moduleUrl()` to generate a module URL. This signature is deprecated.
	//		If value is specified, the cache value for the moduleUrl will be set to
	//		that value. Otherwise, dojo.cache will fetch the moduleUrl and store it
	//		in its internal cache and return that cached value for the URL. To clear
	//		a cache value pass null for value. Since XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is used to fetch the
	//		the URL contents, only modules on the same domain of the page can use this capability.
	//		The build system can inline the cache values though, to allow for xdomain hosting.
	// module: String||Object
	//		If a String with slashes, a fully resolved path; if a String without slashes, the
	//		module name to use for the base part of the URL, similar to module argument
	//		to `dojo.moduleUrl`. If an Object, something that has a .toString() method that
	//		generates a valid path for the cache item. For example, a dojo._Url object.
	// url: String
	//		The rest of the path to append to the path derived from the module argument. If
	//		module is an object, then this second argument should be the "value" argument instead.
	// value: String||Object?
	//		If a String, the value to use in the cache for the module/url combination.
	//		If an Object, it can have two properties: value and sanitize. The value property
	//		should be the value to use in the cache, and sanitize can be set to true or false,
	//		to indicate if XML declarations should be removed from the value and if the HTML
	//		inside a body tag in the value should be extracted as the real value. The value argument
	//		or the value property on the value argument are usually only used by the build system
	//		as it inlines cache content.
	//	example:
	//		To ask dojo.cache to fetch content and store it in the cache (the dojo["cache"] style
	//		of call is used to avoid an issue with the build system erroneously trying to intern
	//		this example. To get the build system to intern your dojo.cache calls, use the
	//		"dojo.cache" style of call):
	//		| //If template.html contains "<h1>Hello</h1>" that will be
	//		| //the value for the text variable.
	//		| var text = dojo["cache"]("my.module", "template.html");
	//	example:
	//		To ask dojo.cache to fetch content and store it in the cache, and sanitize the input
	//		 (the dojo["cache"] style of call is used to avoid an issue with the build system
	//		erroneously trying to intern this example. To get the build system to intern your
	//		dojo.cache calls, use the "dojo.cache" style of call):
	//		| //If template.html contains "<html><body><h1>Hello</h1></body></html>", the
	//		| //text variable will contain just "<h1>Hello</h1>".
	//		| var text = dojo["cache"]("my.module", "template.html", {sanitize: true});
	//	example:
	//		Same example as previous, but demostrates how an object can be passed in as
	//		the first argument, then the value argument can then be the second argument.
	//		| //If template.html contains "<html><body><h1>Hello</h1></body></html>", the
	//		| //text variable will contain just "<h1>Hello</h1>".
	//		| var text = dojo["cache"](new dojo._Url("my/module/template.html"), {sanitize: true});
	return val; //String
};
=====*/
});

fyi - dojo's loader has a configuration option to specifically address this use case. add this to your config:

aliases: [
  ["text", "dojo/text"]
]

alternatively, a simpler shim is just a text.js like this:

define('text', ['dojo/text'], function (text) {
  return text;
});

the id is optional of course but using it i think allows you to put something like that in your html file rather than have its own js file.