Index: util/util-util/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/util/FormattedText.java
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--- util/util-util/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/util/FormattedText.java	(revision 38055)
+++ util/util-util/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/util/FormattedText.java	(working copy)
@@ -172,6 +172,20 @@
 			Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL);
 
 	/**
+	 * @see #processFormattedText(String, StringBuilder)
+	 * @deprecated since Nov 2007, use {@link
+	#processFormattedText(String, StringBuilder)} instead
+	 */
+	public static String processFormattedText(final String strFromBrowser,
+			StringBuffer errorMessages)	{
+		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(errorMessages.toString());
+		String fixed = processFormattedText(strFromBrowser, sb);
+		errorMessages.setLength(0);
+		errorMessages.append(sb.toString());
+		return fixed;
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Processes and validates user-entered HTML received from the web browser (from the WYSIWYG editor). Validates that the user input follows the Sakai formatted text specification; disallows dangerous stuff such as <SCRIPT> JavaScript tags.
 	 * Encodes the text according to the formatted text specification, for the rest of the system to use.
 	 *