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 # html-object-strings
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jobyone/html-object-strings.svg?branch=main)](https://travis-ci.org/jobyone/html-object-strings)
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-An HTML string-building library, used for building HTML strings from simple and easy-to-use objects.
+This v1 branch is just here to prop up some very ugly legacy code elsewhere. Nobody should use it.