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    <dependency>

      <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

      <artifactId>poi</artifactId>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

      <groupId>joda-time</groupId>

import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;

import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

	public FormattedText marshal(String string) throws Exception {

		if(string != null) {

			String documentString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><text>"  + string + "</text>";

			//log.debug("Parsing " + documentString);

			FormattedText text = new FormattedText();