commit b092913f81f1f9c3cb01801a45a6088bc96288a0
from: roman zolotarev <hi@romanzolotarev.com>
date: Fri Jan 23 19:11:29 2026 UTC

fix: render_page(): remove unnecessary esc() and extract $SITE

commit - 4242eafc944ceef1e2748b3698e2a1c93bd246ba
commit + b092913f81f1f9c3cb01801a45a6088bc96288a0
blob - 2fa134a6e421d5d03dda235f88233894f0ae538a
blob + f5305e5e2f5c4b2f0a5956e453a548ef3ee8951d
--- ssg.sh
+++ ssg.sh
@@ -105,20 +105,18 @@ mustache() {
 
 # returns page rendered with its template
 render_page() {
-	# strip newlines and escape ampersands and slashes
-	esc() { tr -d '\n' | sed 's/[&/]/\\&/g'; }
 	# replace newlines with spaces and extract title from the first <h1> tag
 	get_title() { tr '\n' ' ' |
 		sed -n 's/^[^<]*<[Hh]1[^>]*>\([^<]*\)<\/[Hh]1[^>]*>.*/\1/p'; }
 	content="$(cat)"
-	# use src dir name as site name
-	site="$(basename "$SRC" | esc)"
-	title="$(printf '%s' "$content" | get_title | esc)"
+	# use src directory name as site name
+	title="$(printf '%s' "$content" | get_title | tr -d '\n')"
+	site="$SITE"
 	# replace {{title}} and {{site}} tags with values from variables,
 	# replace {{content}} tag with page content.
 	# use truthy tag to show title only when it's found in content, for example:
 	# {{#title}}{{title}: {{/title}}
-	export content site title && mustache <"$1"
+	export content title site && mustache <"$1"
 }
 
 # return html converted from markdown
@@ -388,7 +386,6 @@ generate_sitemap() {
 	fi
 	# generate sitemap.xml for all pages in dst
 	{
-		site=$(basename "$SRC")
 		echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <urlset
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
@@ -399,7 +396,7 @@ generate_sitemap() {
 			s,^$,,
 			s,^'"$DST"',,
 			s,index.html$,,
-			s,^(.*)$,	<url><loc>https://'"$site"'/\1</loc></url>,'
+			s,^(.*)$,	<url><loc>https://'"$SITE"'/\1</loc></url>,'
 		echo '</urlset>'
 	} >"$DST/$SSG_SITEMAP_XML"
 	info "sitemap   $SSG_SITEMAP_XML"
@@ -408,7 +405,7 @@ generate_sitemap() {
 	if test -f "$SRC/$SSG_ROBOTS_TXT"; then return; fi
 	# generate robots.txt in dst
 	echo 'user-agent: *
-sitemap: https://'"$site"'/sitemap.xml' >"$DST/$SSG_ROBOTS_TXT"
+sitemap: https://'"$SITE"'/sitemap.xml' >"$DST/$SSG_ROBOTS_TXT"
 	info "sitemap   $SSG_ROBOTS_TXT"
 }
 
@@ -442,6 +439,7 @@ main() {
 
 	SRC=$(cd "$1" && pwd)
 	DST="$2"
+	SITE="$(basename "$SRC")"
 	SSG_IGNORE='.ssg.ignore'
 	SSG_TEMPLATE='.ssg.template'
 	SSG_SRC='.ssg.src'
blob - 6a771627ed42f0433cd24383fd758424703d17ca
blob + 371c3087f96573cf33fd12f8a371ddc020675b01
--- ssg.test.sh
+++ ssg.test.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/ksh -e
 
 ok_count=0
-ok_expected=27
+ok_expected=28
 
 plan() {
 	echo "$ok_expected..$ok_count"
@@ -420,6 +420,20 @@ sitemap   sitemap.xml
 		cat "$dst/robots.txt" | not_ok_diff "$1" ''
 		;;
 
+	generate_html_with_template_title)
+		mkdir "$src" "$dst"
+		echo '<h1>'\''&rarr;
+</h1>' >"$src/h.html"
+		echo '<title>{{title}}</title>' >"$src/.ssg.template"
+
+		"$cmd" "$src" "$dst" 2>/dev/null
+		hexdump -C "$dst/h.html" | not_ok_diff_n "$1: h.html" '
+00000000  3c 74 69 74 6c 65 3e 27  26 72 61 72 72 3b 20 3c  |<title>'\''&rarr; <|
+00000010  2f 74 69 74 6c 65 3e 0a                           |/title>.|
+00000018
+'
+		;;
+
 	generate_html_with_template)
 		mkdir "$src" "$dst"
 		echo '<h1>h1</h1>' >"$src/h.html"
@@ -719,6 +733,7 @@ t generate_copy
 t generate_file
 t generate_html
 t generate_html_with_template
+t generate_html_with_template_title
 t generate_html_with_template_no_title
 t generate_html_with_template_in_dir
 t generate_html_template_not_found