I think it's good to have a value="" attribute, because you might want to have both plain text and an indicator, as can be seen in Hotmail:<p>12% of 250 MB <meter value="0.12"></meter></p>
I think CSS is more appropriate for this task than an empty <meter> with text outside.
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