Nesting a text inside a tag in slim

Question

How do I nest the 'Featured' text inside the a tag, given the span, the text, and the other span are siblings?

li
  a href="#" class="selected"
    span class="icon-before"
    Featured
    span class="icon-after"

Answer 1

li
  a href="#" class="selected"
    span class="icon-before"
    | Featured
    span class="icon-after"

Gives:

<li><a class="selected" href="#"><span class="icon-before"></span>Featured<span class="icon-after"></span></a></li>