public static String escapeHTMLTags( String string )
    {
        return StringUtils.escapeHTMLTags( string );
    }
This method takes a string which may contain HTML tags (ie, &lt;b&gt;,
&lt;table&gt;, etc) and converts the '&lt;' and '&gt;' characters to
their HTML escape sequences. It will also replace LF  with &lt;br&gt;.

@param string the String to escape
@return the escaped string
@see StringUtils#escapeHTMLTags(String)
xmppserver/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/admin/JSTLFunctions.java