How to escape a dot in emmet

Question

I am using Atom to write a react-native application. Basically I need a snippet that expands to:

  <TabBarIOS>
    <TabBarIOS.Item>
    </TabBarIOS.Item>
    <TabBarIOS.Item
    </TabBarIOS.Item>
  </TabBarIOS>

if I try something like: TabBarIOS>TabBarIOS.Item*2 it uses the dot to add a className attribute, so it produces:

 <TabBarIOS>
  <TabBarIOS className="Item"></TabBarIOS>
  <TabBarIOS className="Item"></TabBarIOS>
</TabBarIOS>

The official documentation includes syntax to escape "|" and "$" with "\", sadly that does not work for dots. Is there a way to escape that dot in order to get it included in the tag name?

Valentijn

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