diff --git a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/Makefile b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/Makefile
index 2f107da111..6d8ff5cd14 100644
--- a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/Makefile
+++ b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ include ../../../../Make.inc
 
 TARG=exp/template/html
 GOFILES=\
-	escape.go
+	context.go\
+	escape.go\
 
 include ../../../../Make.pkg
diff --git a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/context.go b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/context.go
index 4110068834..5ef3b78146 100644
--- a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/context.go
+++ b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/context.go
@@ -16,56 +16,57 @@ import (
 // http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-end.html#parsing-html-fragments
 // where the context element is null.
 type context struct {
-	state state
-	delim delim
+	state   state
+	delim   delim
+	errLine int
+	errStr  string
 }
 
-func (c context) String() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("context{state: %s, delim: %s", c.state, c.delim)
-}
-
-// eq is true if the two contexts are identical field-wise.
+// eq returns whether two contexts are equal.
 func (c context) eq(d context) bool {
-	return c.state == d.state && c.delim == d.delim
+	return c.state == d.state && c.delim == d.delim && c.errLine == d.errLine && c.errStr == d.errStr
 }
 
 // state describes a high-level HTML parser state.
 //
-// It bounds the top of the element stack, and by extension the HTML
-// insertion mode, but also contains state that does not correspond to
-// anything in the HTML5 parsing algorithm because a single token 
-// production in the HTML grammar may contain embedded actions in a template.
-// For instance, the quoted HTML attribute produced by
+// It bounds the top of the element stack, and by extension the HTML insertion
+// mode, but also contains state that does not correspond to anything in the
+// HTML5 parsing algorithm because a single token production in the HTML
+// grammar may contain embedded actions in a template. For instance, the quoted
+// HTML attribute produced by
 //     <div title="Hello {{.World}}">
 // is a single token in HTML's grammar but in a template spans several nodes.
 type state uint8
 
 const (
-	// statePCDATA is parsed character data.  An HTML parser is in
+	// stateText is parsed character data. An HTML parser is in
 	// this state when its parse position is outside an HTML tag,
 	// directive, comment, and special element body.
-	statePCDATA state = iota
+	stateText state = iota
 	// stateTag occurs before an HTML attribute or the end of a tag.
 	stateTag
-	// stateURI occurs inside an HTML attribute whose content is a URI.
-	stateURI
+	// stateAttr occurs inside an HTML attribute whose content is text.
+	stateAttr
+	// stateURL occurs inside an HTML attribute whose content is a URL.
+	stateURL
 	// stateError is an infectious error state outside any valid
 	// HTML/CSS/JS construct.
 	stateError
 )
 
 var stateNames = [...]string{
-	statePCDATA: "statePCDATA",
-	stateTag:    "stateTag",
-	stateURI:    "stateURI",
-	stateError:  "stateError",
+	stateText:  "stateText",
+	stateTag:   "stateTag",
+	stateAttr:  "stateAttr",
+	stateURL:   "stateURL",
+	stateError: "stateError",
 }
 
 func (s state) String() string {
-	if uint(s) < uint(len(stateNames)) {
+	if int(s) < len(stateNames) {
 		return stateNames[s]
 	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("illegal state %d", uint(s))
+	return fmt.Sprintf("illegal state %d", s)
 }
 
 // delim is the delimiter that will end the current HTML attribute.
@@ -91,8 +92,8 @@ var delimNames = [...]string{
 }
 
 func (d delim) String() string {
-	if uint(d) < uint(len(delimNames)) {
+	if int(d) < len(delimNames) {
 		return delimNames[d]
 	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("illegal delim %d", uint(d))
+	return fmt.Sprintf("illegal delim %d", d)
 }
diff --git a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape.go b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape.go
index e0e87b98d0..a0fccf96d1 100644
--- a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape.go
+++ b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape.go
@@ -2,104 +2,283 @@
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
-// Package html is a specialization of exp/template that automates the
+// Package html is a specialization of template that automates the
 // construction of safe HTML output.
-// At the moment, the escaping is naive.  All dynamic content is assumed to be
-// plain text interpolated in an HTML PCDATA context.
+// INCOMPLETE.
 package html
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"template"
 	"template/parse"
 )
 
-// Escape rewrites each action in the template to guarantee the output is
+// Escape rewrites each action in the template to guarantee that the output is
 // HTML-escaped.
-func Escape(t *template.Template) {
-	// If the parser shares trees based on common-subexpression
-	// joining then we will need to avoid multiply escaping the same action.
-	escapeListNode(t.Tree.Root)
+func Escape(t *template.Template) (*template.Template, os.Error) {
+	c := escapeList(context{}, t.Tree.Root)
+	if c.errStr != "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s:%d: %s", t.Name(), c.errLine, c.errStr)
+	}
+	return t, nil
 }
 
-// escapeNode dispatches to escape<NodeType> helpers by type.
-func escapeNode(node parse.Node) {
-	switch n := node.(type) {
-	case *parse.ListNode:
-		escapeListNode(n)
-	case *parse.TextNode:
-		// Nothing to do.
+// escape escapes a template node.
+func escape(c context, n parse.Node) context {
+	switch n := n.(type) {
 	case *parse.ActionNode:
-		escapeActionNode(n)
+		return escapeAction(c, n)
 	case *parse.IfNode:
-		escapeIfNode(n)
+		return escapeBranch(c, &n.BranchNode, "if")
+	case *parse.ListNode:
+		return escapeList(c, n)
 	case *parse.RangeNode:
-		escapeRangeNode(n)
-	case *parse.TemplateNode:
-		// Nothing to do.
+		return escapeBranch(c, &n.BranchNode, "range")
+	case *parse.TextNode:
+		return escapeText(c, n)
 	case *parse.WithNode:
-		escapeWithNode(n)
-	default:
-		panic("handling for " + node.String() + " not implemented")
-		// TODO: Handle other inner node types.
+		return escapeBranch(c, &n.BranchNode, "with")
 	}
+	// TODO: handle a *parse.TemplateNode. Should Escape take a *template.Set?
+	panic("escaping " + n.String() + " is unimplemented")
 }
 
-// escapeListNode recursively escapes its input's children.
-func escapeListNode(node *parse.ListNode) {
-	if node == nil {
-		return
+// escapeAction escapes an action template node.
+func escapeAction(c context, n *parse.ActionNode) context {
+	sanitizer := "html"
+	if c.state == stateURL {
+		sanitizer = "urlquery"
 	}
-	children := node.Nodes
-	for _, child := range children {
-		escapeNode(child)
-	}
-}
-
-// escapeActionNode adds a pipeline call to the end that escapes the result
-// of the expression before it is interpolated into the template output.
-func escapeActionNode(node *parse.ActionNode) {
-	pipe := node.Pipe
-
-	cmds := pipe.Cmds
-	nCmds := len(cmds)
-
-	// If it already has an escaping command, do not interfere.
-	if nCmds != 0 {
-		if lastCmd := cmds[nCmds-1]; len(lastCmd.Args) != 0 {
-			// TODO: Recognize url and js as escaping functions once
-			// we have enough context to know whether additional
-			// escaping is necessary.
-			if arg, ok := lastCmd.Args[0].(*parse.IdentifierNode); ok && arg.Ident == "html" {
-				return
+	// If the pipe already ends with the sanitizer, do not interfere.
+	if m := len(n.Pipe.Cmds); m != 0 {
+		if last := n.Pipe.Cmds[m-1]; len(last.Args) != 0 {
+			if i, ok := last.Args[0].(*parse.IdentifierNode); ok && i.Ident == sanitizer {
+				return c
 			}
 		}
 	}
-
-	htmlEscapeCommand := parse.CommandNode{
+	// Otherwise, append the sanitizer.
+	n.Pipe.Cmds = append(n.Pipe.Cmds, &parse.CommandNode{
 		NodeType: parse.NodeCommand,
-		Args:     []parse.Node{parse.NewIdentifier("html")},
+		Args:     []parse.Node{parse.NewIdentifier(sanitizer)},
+	})
+	return c
+}
+
+// join joins the two contexts of a branch template node. The result is an
+// error context if either of the input contexts are error contexts, or if the
+// the input contexts differ.
+func join(a, b context, line int, nodeName string) context {
+	if a.state == stateError {
+		return a
+	}
+	if b.state == stateError {
+		return b
+	}
+	if a.eq(b) {
+		return a
+	}
+	return context{
+		state:   stateError,
+		errLine: line,
+		errStr:  fmt.Sprintf("{{%s}} branches end in different contexts: %v, %v", nodeName, a, b),
+	}
+}
+
+// escapeBranch escapes a branch template node: "if", "range" and "with".
+func escapeBranch(c context, n *parse.BranchNode, nodeName string) context {
+	c0 := escapeList(c, n.List)
+	if nodeName == "range" {
+		// The "true" branch of a "range" node can execute multiple times.
+		// We check that executing n.List once results in the same context
+		// as executing n.List twice.
+		c0 = join(c0, escapeList(c0, n.List), n.Line, nodeName)
+	}
+	c1 := escapeList(c, n.ElseList)
+	return join(c0, c1, n.Line, nodeName)
+}
+
+// escapeList escapes a list template node.
+func escapeList(c context, n *parse.ListNode) context {
+	if n == nil {
+		return c
+	}
+	for _, m := range n.Nodes {
+		c = escape(c, m)
+	}
+	return c
+}
+
+// escapeText escapes a text template node.
+func escapeText(c context, n *parse.TextNode) context {
+	for s := n.Text; len(s) > 0; {
+		c, s = transitionFunc[c.state](c, s)
+	}
+	return c
+}
+
+// transitionFunc is the array of context transition functions for text nodes.
+// A transition function takes a context and template text input, and returns
+// the updated context and any unconsumed text.
+var transitionFunc = [...]func(context, []byte) (context, []byte){
+	stateText:  tText,
+	stateTag:   tTag,
+	stateURL:   tURL,
+	stateAttr:  tAttr,
+	stateError: tError,
+}
+
+// tText is the context transition function for the text state.
+func tText(c context, s []byte) (context, []byte) {
+	for {
+		i := bytes.IndexByte(s, '<')
+		if i == -1 || i+1 == len(s) {
+			return c, nil
+		}
+		i++
+		if s[i] == '/' {
+			if i+1 == len(s) {
+				return c, nil
+			}
+			i++
+		}
+		j := eatTagName(s, i)
+		if j != i {
+			// We've found an HTML tag.
+			return context{state: stateTag}, s[j:]
+		}
+		s = s[j:]
+	}
+	panic("unreachable")
+}
+
+// tTag is the context transition function for the tag state.
+func tTag(c context, s []byte) (context, []byte) {
+	// Skip to the end tag, if there is one.
+	i := bytes.IndexByte(s, '>')
+	if i != -1 {
+		return context{state: stateText}, s[i+1:]
 	}
 
-	node.Pipe.Cmds = append(node.Pipe.Cmds, &htmlEscapeCommand)
+	// Otherwise, find the attribute name.
+	i = eatWhiteSpace(s, 0)
+	attrStart, i := i, eatAttrName(s, i)
+	if i == len(s) {
+		return context{state: stateTag}, nil
+	}
+	state := stateAttr
+	if urlAttr[strings.ToLower(string(s[attrStart:i]))] {
+		state = stateURL
+	}
+
+	// Consume the "=".
+	i = eatWhiteSpace(s, i)
+	if i == len(s) || s[i] != '=' {
+		return context{state: stateTag}, s[i:]
+	}
+	i = eatWhiteSpace(s, i+1)
+
+	// Find the delimiter.
+	if i == len(s) {
+		return context{state: state, delim: delimSpaceOrTagEnd}, nil
+	}
+	switch s[i] {
+	case '\'':
+		return context{state: state, delim: delimSingleQuote}, s[i+1:]
+	case '"':
+		return context{state: state, delim: delimDoubleQuote}, s[i+1:]
+	}
+
+	// TODO: This shouldn't be an error: `<a b=1 c={{.X}}` should be valid.
+	return context{state: stateError}, nil
 }
 
-// escapeIfNode recursively escapes the if and then clauses but leaves the
-// condition unchanged.
-func escapeIfNode(node *parse.IfNode) {
-	escapeListNode(node.List)
-	escapeListNode(node.ElseList)
+// tAttr is the context transition function for the attribute state.
+func tAttr(c context, s []byte) (context, []byte) {
+	// TODO: look for the delimiter.
+	return c, nil
 }
 
-// escapeRangeNode recursively escapes the loop body and else clause but
-// leaves the series unchanged.
-func escapeRangeNode(node *parse.RangeNode) {
-	escapeListNode(node.List)
-	escapeListNode(node.ElseList)
+// tURL is the context transition function for the URL state.
+func tURL(c context, s []byte) (context, []byte) {
+	// TODO: look for the delimiter.
+	return c, nil
 }
 
-// escapeWithNode recursively escapes the scope body and else clause but
-// leaves the pipeline unchanged.
-func escapeWithNode(node *parse.WithNode) {
-	escapeListNode(node.List)
-	escapeListNode(node.ElseList)
+// tError is the context transition function for the error state.
+func tError(c context, s []byte) (context, []byte) {
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+// eatAttrName returns the largest j such that s[i:j] is an attribute name.
+func eatAttrName(s []byte, i int) int {
+	for j := i; j < len(s); j++ {
+		switch s[j] {
+		case ' ', '\n', '\r', '\t', '=':
+			return j
+		default:
+			// No-op.
+		}
+	}
+	return len(s)
+}
+
+// eatTagName returns the largest j such that s[i:j] is a tag name.
+func eatTagName(s []byte, i int) int {
+	for j := i; j < len(s); j++ {
+		x := s[j]
+		switch {
+		case 'a' <= x && x <= 'z':
+			// No-op.
+		case 'A' <= x && x <= 'Z':
+			// No-op.
+		case '0' <= x && x <= '9' && i != j:
+			// No-op.
+		default:
+			return j
+		}
+	}
+	return len(s)
+}
+
+// eatWhiteSpace returns the largest j such that s[i:j] is white space.
+func eatWhiteSpace(s []byte, i int) int {
+	for j := i; j < len(s); j++ {
+		switch s[j] {
+		case ' ', '\n', '\r', '\t':
+			// No-op.
+		default:
+			return j
+		}
+	}
+	return len(s)
+}
+
+// urlAttr is the set of attribute names whose values are URLs.
+// It consists of all "%URI"-typed attributes from
+// http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
+// as well as those attributes defined at
+// http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/index.html#attributes-1
+// whose Value column in that table matches
+// "Valid [non-empty] URL potentially surrounded by spaces".
+var urlAttr = map[string]bool{
+	"action":     true,
+	"archive":    true,
+	"background": true,
+	"cite":       true,
+	"classid":    true,
+	"codebase":   true,
+	"data":       true,
+	"formaction": true,
+	"href":       true,
+	"icon":       true,
+	"longdesc":   true,
+	"manifest":   true,
+	"poster":     true,
+	"profile":    true,
+	"src":        true,
+	"usemap":     true,
 }
diff --git a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape_test.go b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape_test.go
index 345a752a89..e3b68d6318 100644
--- a/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/exp/template/html/escape_test.go
@@ -6,70 +6,271 @@ package html
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"strings"
 	"template"
+	"template/parse"
 	"testing"
 )
 
-type data struct {
-	F, T    bool
-	C, G, H string
-	A, E    []string
-}
+func TestEscape(t *testing.T) {
+	var data = struct {
+		F, T    bool
+		C, G, H string
+		A, E    []string
+	}{
+		F: false,
+		T: true,
+		C: "<Cincinatti>",
+		G: "<Goodbye>",
+		H: "<Hello>",
+		A: []string{"<a>", "<b>"},
+		E: []string{},
+	}
 
-var testData = data{
-	F: false,
-	T: true,
-	C: "<Cincinatti>",
-	G: "<Goodbye>",
-	H: "<Hello>",
-	A: []string{"<a>", "<b>"},
-	E: []string{},
-}
+	var testCases = []struct {
+		name   string
+		input  string
+		output string
+	}{
+		{
+			"if",
+			"{{if .T}}Hello{{end}}, {{.C}}!",
+			"Hello, &lt;Cincinatti&gt;!",
+		},
+		{
+			"else",
+			"{{if .F}}{{.H}}{{else}}{{.G}}{{end}}!",
+			"&lt;Goodbye&gt;!",
+		},
+		{
+			"overescaping",
+			"Hello, {{.C | html}}!",
+			"Hello, &lt;Cincinatti&gt;!",
+		},
+		{
+			"assignment",
+			"{{if $x := .H}}{{$x}}{{end}}",
+			"&lt;Hello&gt;",
+		},
+		{
+			"withBody",
+			"{{with .H}}{{.}}{{end}}",
+			"&lt;Hello&gt;",
+		},
+		{
+			"withElse",
+			"{{with .E}}{{.}}{{else}}{{.H}}{{end}}",
+			"&lt;Hello&gt;",
+		},
+		{
+			"rangeBody",
+			"{{range .A}}{{.}}{{end}}",
+			"&lt;a&gt;&lt;b&gt;",
+		},
+		{
+			"rangeElse",
+			"{{range .E}}{{.}}{{else}}{{.H}}{{end}}",
+			"&lt;Hello&gt;",
+		},
+		{
+			"nonStringValue",
+			"{{.T}}",
+			"true",
+		},
+		{
+			// TODO: Make sure the URL escaper escapes single quotes so it can
+			// be embedded in single quoted URI attributes and CSS url(...)
+			// constructs. Single quotes are reserved in URLs, but are only used
+			// in the obsolete "mark" rule in an appendix in RFC 3986 so can be
+			// safely encoded.
+			"constant",
+			`<a href="{{"'a<b'"}}">`,
+			`<a href="'a%3Cb'">`,
+		},
+	}
 
-type testCase struct {
-	name   string
-	input  string
-	output string
-}
-
-var testCases = []testCase{
-	{"if", "{{if .T}}Hello{{end}}, {{.C}}!", "Hello, &lt;Cincinatti&gt;!"},
-	{"else", "{{if .F}}{{.H}}{{else}}{{.G}}{{end}}!", "&lt;Goodbye&gt;!"},
-	{"overescaping", "Hello, {{.C | html}}!", "Hello, &lt;Cincinatti&gt;!"},
-	{"assignment", "{{if $x := .H}}{{$x}}{{end}}", "&lt;Hello&gt;"},
-	{"withBody", "{{with .H}}{{.}}{{end}}", "&lt;Hello&gt;"},
-	{"withElse", "{{with .E}}{{.}}{{else}}{{.H}}{{end}}", "&lt;Hello&gt;"},
-	{"rangeBody", "{{range .A}}{{.}}{{end}}", "&lt;a&gt;&lt;b&gt;"},
-	{"rangeElse", "{{range .E}}{{.}}{{else}}{{.H}}{{end}}", "&lt;Hello&gt;"},
-	{"nonStringValue", "{{.T}}", "true"},
-	{"constant", `<a href="{{"'str'"}}">`, `<a href="&#39;str&#39;">`},
-}
-
-func TestAutoesc(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, testCase := range testCases {
-		name := testCase.name
-		tmpl := template.New(name)
-		tmpl, err := tmpl.Parse(testCase.input)
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		tmpl, err := template.New(tc.name).Parse(tc.input)
 		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: failed to parse template: %s", name, err)
+			t.Errorf("%s: template parsing failed: %s", tc.name, err)
 			continue
 		}
-
 		Escape(tmpl)
-
-		buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
-
-		err = tmpl.Execute(buffer, testData)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: template execution failed: %s", name, err)
+		b := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		if err = tmpl.Execute(b, data); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s: template execution failed: %s", tc.name, err)
 			continue
 		}
-
-		output := testCase.output
-		actual := buffer.String()
-		if output != actual {
-			t.Errorf("%s: escaped output: %q != %q",
-				name, output, actual)
+		if w, g := tc.output, b.String(); w != g {
+			t.Errorf("%s: escaped output: want %q got %q", tc.name, w, g)
+			continue
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	var testCases = []struct {
+		input string
+		err   string
+	}{
+		// Non-error cases.
+		{
+			"{{if .Cond}}<a>{{else}}<b>{{end}}",
+			"",
+		},
+		{
+			"{{if .Cond}}<a>{{end}}",
+			"",
+		},
+		{
+			"{{if .Cond}}{{else}}<b>{{end}}",
+			"",
+		},
+		{
+			"{{with .Cond}}<div>{{end}}",
+			"",
+		},
+		{
+			"{{range .Items}}<a>{{end}}",
+			"",
+		},
+		{
+			"<a href='/foo?{{range .Items}}&{{.K}}={{.V}}{{end}}'>",
+			"",
+		},
+		// Error cases.
+		{
+			"{{if .Cond}}<a{{end}}",
+			"z:1: {{if}} branches",
+		},
+		{
+			"{{if .Cond}}\n{{else}}\n<a{{end}}",
+			"z:1: {{if}} branches",
+		},
+		/*
+			TODO: Should the error really be non-empty? Both branches close the tag...
+
+			// Missing quote in the else branch.
+			{
+				`{{if .Cond}}<a href="foo">{{else}}<a href="bar>{{end}}`,
+				"z:1: {{if}} branches",
+			},
+		*/
+		{
+			// Different kind of attribute: href implies a URL.
+			"<a {{if .Cond}}href='{{else}}title='{{end}}{{.X}}'>",
+			"z:1: {{if}} branches",
+		},
+		{
+			"\n{{with .X}}<a{{end}}",
+			"z:2: {{with}} branches",
+		},
+		{
+			"\n{{with .X}}<a>{{else}}<a{{end}}",
+			"z:2: {{with}} branches",
+		},
+		{
+			"{{range .Items}}<a{{end}}",
+			"z:1: {{range}} branches",
+		},
+		{
+			"\n{{range .Items}} x='<a{{end}}",
+			"z:2: {{range}} branches",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		tmpl, err := template.New("z").Parse(tc.input)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("input=%q: template parsing failed: %s", tc.input, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		var got string
+		if _, err := Escape(tmpl); err != nil {
+			got = err.String()
+		}
+		if tc.err == "" {
+			if got != "" {
+				t.Errorf("input=%q: unexpected error %q", tc.input, got)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.Index(got, tc.err) == -1 {
+			t.Errorf("input=%q: error %q does not contain expected string %q", tc.input, got, tc.err)
+			continue
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEscapeText(t *testing.T) {
+	var testCases = []struct {
+		input  string
+		output context
+	}{
+		{
+			``,
+			context{},
+		},
+		{
+			`Hello, World!`,
+			context{},
+		},
+		{
+			// An orphaned "<" is OK.
+			`I <3 Ponies!`,
+			context{},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a`,
+			context{state: stateTag},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a `,
+			context{state: stateTag},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a>`,
+			context{state: stateText},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a href=`,
+			context{state: stateURL, delim: delimSpaceOrTagEnd},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a href ='`,
+			context{state: stateURL, delim: delimSingleQuote},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a href= "`,
+			context{state: stateURL, delim: delimDoubleQuote},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a title="`,
+			context{state: stateAttr, delim: delimDoubleQuote},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a HREF='http:`,
+			context{state: stateURL, delim: delimSingleQuote},
+		},
+		{
+			`<a Href='/`,
+			context{state: stateURL, delim: delimSingleQuote},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		n := &parse.TextNode{
+			NodeType: parse.NodeText,
+			Text:     []byte(tc.input),
+		}
+		c := escapeText(context{}, n)
+		if !tc.output.eq(c) {
+			t.Errorf("input %q: want context %v got %v", tc.input, tc.output, c)
+			continue
+		}
+		if tc.input != string(n.Text) {
+			t.Errorf("input %q: text node was modified: want %q got %q", tc.input, tc.input, n.Text)
+			continue
 		}
 	}
 }