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+/**
+ * Copyright 2013 Facebook, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * @jsx React.DOM
+ * @emails react-core
+ */
+
+"use strict";
+
+var React;
+
+describe('ReactTextComponent', function() {
+  beforeEach(function() {
+    React = require('React');
+  });
+
+  it('should escape the rootID', function(){
+    var ThisThingShouldBeEscaped = '">>> LULZ <<<"';
+    var ThisThingWasBeEscaped = '&quot;&gt;&gt;&gt; LULZ &lt;&lt;&lt;&quot;';
+    var thing = React.DOM.div(null, React.DOM.span({key:ThisThingShouldBeEscaped}, ["LULZ"]));
+    React.renderComponentToString(thing, function(html){
+      expect(html).not.toContain(ThisThingShouldBeEscaped);
+      expect(html).toContain(ThisThingWasBeEscaped);
+    });
+  })
+});