diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Locale/Translate.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Locale/Translate.php
index dba41a86af314eafc29b9d1d45d77d57f43e5707..6ffd011a8d05948f4f161e76b586fc2c52e712e9 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Locale/Translate.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Locale/Translate.php
@@ -221,6 +221,19 @@ class Translate
     }
 
 
+    /**
+     * Mark a string for translation without translating it.
+     *
+     * @param string  $tag A tag name to mark for translation.
+     *
+     * @return string The tag, unchanged.
+     */
+    public function noop($tag)
+    {
+        return $tag;
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Translate a tag into the current language, with a fallback to english.
      *
@@ -245,7 +258,7 @@ class Translate
     public function t(
         $tag,
         $replacements = array(),
-        $fallbackdefault = true,
+        $fallbackdefault = true, // TODO: remove this for 2.0. Assume true
         $oldreplacements = array(), // TODO: remove this for 2.0
         $striptags = false // TODO: remove this for 2.0
     ) {
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
index b2fa78042f2d2654b553c04d87a68b63315a5a6a..af971624922c80b4cec382452405eb9a69d57c68 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
@@ -566,6 +566,18 @@ class SimpleSAML_XHTML_Template
     }
 
 
+    /**
+     * Wrap Language->noop to mark a tag for translation but actually do it later.
+     *
+     * @see \SimpleSAML\Locale\Translate::noop()
+     * @deprecated This method will be removed in SSP 2.0. Please use \SimpleSAML\Locale\Translate::t() instead.
+     */
+    public function noop($tag)
+    {
+        return $this->translator->noop($tag);
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Wrap Language->t to translate tag into the current language, with a fallback to english.
      *