def escape_html(text: str) -> str:
    """Replace <, >, &, " with their HTML encoded representation. Intended to
    prevent HTML errors in rendered displaCy markup.

    text (str): The original text.
    RETURNS (str): Equivalent text to be safely used within HTML.
    """
    text = text.replace("&", "&amp;")
    text = text.replace("<", "&lt;")
    text = text.replace(">", "&gt;")
    text = text.replace('"', "&quot;")
    return text
Replace <, >, &, " with their HTML encoded representation. Intended to
    prevent HTML errors in rendered displaCy markup.

    text (str): The original text.
    RETURNS (str): Equivalent text to be safely used within HTML.
    
spacy/util.py