an attribute if there is no currently-open start tag. Any special
characters within the attribute value will automatically be escaped (for example, "&lt;" will be output as
"&amp;lt;")</p>

<p>If two attributes are output with the same name, the second one takes precedence.</p>

<p>Saxon permits the additional attribute <b>saxon:disable-output-escaping</b>. If this is set to
the value "yes", then the attribute value will be output as-is, without escaping of special
characters. This affects both the 