Use the create-html-element module

index.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 // - const urlRegex = require('url-regex');
-const escapeGoat = require('escape-goat');
+const createHtmlElement = require('create-html-element');
 
 const urlRegex = () => (/(http(s)?(:\/\/))(www\.)?[a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,})([-a-zA-Z0-9:%_+.~#?&//=]*)/g);
 
@@ -9,24 +9,9 @@ module.exports = (input, options) => {
 		attributes: {}
 	}, options);
 
-	let attributes = Object.keys(options.attributes).map(key => {
-		const value = options.attributes[key];
-
-		if (value === false) {
-			return null;
-		}
-
-		let ret = `${escapeGoat.escape(key)}`;
-
-		if (value === true) {
-			return ret;
-		}
-
-		ret += `="${escapeGoat.escape(String(value))}"`;
-
-		return ret;
-	}).filter(Boolean);
-	attributes = attributes.length > 0 ? ' ' + attributes.join(' ') : '';
-
-	return input.replace(urlRegex(), match => `<a href="${match}"${attributes}>${match}</a>`);
+	return input.replace(urlRegex(), match => createHtmlElement({
+		name: 'a',
+		attributes: Object.assign({href: ''}, options.attributes, {href: match}),
+		value: match
+	}));
 };

package.json

@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 {
-  "name": "linkify-urls",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
-  "description": "Linkify URLs in text",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "repository": "sindresorhus/linkify-urls",
-  "author": {
-    "name": "Sindre Sorhus",
-    "email": "sindresorhus@gmail.com",
-    "url": "sindresorhus.com"
-  },
-  "engines": {
-    "node": ">=4"
-  },
-  "scripts": {
-    "test": "xo && ava"
-  },
-  "files": [
-    "index.js"
-  ],
-  "keywords": [
-    "linkify",
-    "urls",
-    "url",
-    "link",
-    "reference",
-    "references",
-    "linkifies",
-    "href"
-  ],
-  "dependencies": {
-    "escape-goat": "^1.0.0",
-    "url-regex": "^4.0.0"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "ava": "*",
-    "xo": "*"
-  }
+	"name": "linkify-urls",
+	"version": "1.1.0",
+	"description": "Linkify URLs in text",
+	"license": "MIT",
+	"repository": "sindresorhus/linkify-urls",
+	"author": {
+		"name": "Sindre Sorhus",
+		"email": "sindresorhus@gmail.com",
+		"url": "sindresorhus.com"
+	},
+	"engines": {
+		"node": ">=4"
+	},
+	"scripts": {
+		"test": "xo && ava"
+	},
+	"files": [
+		"index.js"
+	],
+	"keywords": [
+		"linkify",
+		"urls",
+		"url",
+		"link",
+		"reference",
+		"references",
+		"linkifies",
+		"href"
+	],
+	"dependencies": {
+		"create-html-element": "^1.0.0",
+		"url-regex": "^4.0.0"
+	},
+	"devDependencies": {
+		"ava": "*",
+		"xo": "*"
+	}
 }

readme.md

@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ linkifyUrls('See https://sindresorhus.com', {
 	attributes: {
 		class: 'unicorn',
 		one: 1,
-		foo: true
+		foo: true,
+		multiple: ['a', 'b']
 	}
 });
-//=> 'See <a href="https://sindresorhus.com" class="unicorn" one="1" foo>https://sindresorhus.com</a>'
+//=> 'See <a href="https://sindresorhus.com" class="unicorn" one="1" foo multiple="a b">https://sindresorhus.com</a>'
 ```