Using HAML elements inside a block of text

I often want some html like this:

(<span id="items_shown">all</span> items shown)

which I end up getting by using haml like this:

%span><
  (
%span#items_shown><
  all
%span
  items shown)

Note that I end up having to create extra spans, and then having to control for the whitespace around those spans, in order to get the exact syntax that I want, without extra spaces between the first ( and the all.

So here's the question. What's the best way of having the exact html above, to display (all items shown) with all in a span? Is there something mo开发者_JS百科re elegant than my haml?

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Check out the FAQ to this effect. The short answer is that Haml's not optimized for inline markup, and there's no shame in just using HTML if you need to.