From a7f45bef3a12fffb6378afdf6df9151fe34e42e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 20:03:34 -0600
Subject: Add EL_ESCAPE option

---
 plugins/el.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/el.sh b/plugins/el.sh
index 6d0780a..87eca03 100644
--- a/plugins/el.sh
+++ b/plugins/el.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ### Code:
 
+## Escape < and > with backslashes.
+EL_ESCAPE=true
+
 el() { # el NAME ARGS...
     ## Create an HTML element named NAME using ARGS.
     # Any ARGS that contain an equals sign will be made into attributes of the
@@ -12,18 +15,23 @@ el() { # el NAME ARGS...
     # No validation is done on any arguments in this function.  It could create
     # something that looks vaguely like an HTML element but isn't valid.
     _name="$1"; shift || return 1 # Require at least an element name
-    _element="\\<$_name"
+    _element="$_name"
     _content=""
     _process_args=true
 
     while test -n "$1"; do
         case "$1" in
-            --) if "$_process_args"; then
+            --)
+		if "$_process_args"; then
                     _process_args=false
                 else
                     _content="$_content${_content:+ }$1"
                 fi
                 ;;
+	    '\<'*)
+		_process_args=false
+		_content="$_content${_content:+ }$1"
+		;;
             *=*)
                 if "$_process_args"; then
                     _element="$_element ${1%%=*}=\"${1#*=}\""
@@ -40,8 +48,12 @@ el() { # el NAME ARGS...
         esac
         shift
     done
-    _element="$_element\\>"
-    printf '%s%s\\</%s\\>\n' "$_element" "$_content" "$_name"
+    if $EL_ESCAPE; then
+	fmt='\<%s\>%s\</%s\>\n'
+    else
+	fmt='<%s>%s</%s>\n'
+    fi
+    printf "$fmt" "$_element" "$_content" "$_name"
 }
 
 ### HTML5 element aliases
-- 
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