owing attributes may be specified:</p>

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<td><font SIZE="2">This indicates the format or destination of the output. The value "xml" indicates
XML output (though if disable-output-escaping is used there is no guarantee that it is well-formed).
A value of "html" is used for HTML output. The value "text" indicates plain text output: in this case
no markup may be written to the file using constructs such as literal resul