diff --git a/Sources/HTML/Tags.swift b/Sources/HTML/Tags.swift
index b4c51e8..a4f1d90 100644
--- a/Sources/HTML/Tags.swift
+++ b/Sources/HTML/Tags.swift
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 
 @_exported import Swim
 
+extension Node {
+    static func element(_ name: String, _ attributes: [String:String], _ node: Node?) -> Node {
+        Node.element(name, Attributes(attributes: attributes.sorted(by: { $0.key < $1.key }).map(Attribute.init)), node)
+    }
+}
+
+
 
 public struct ATag: Tag {
     public let elementName: String = "a"
diff --git a/Sources/Swim/Node.swift b/Sources/Swim/Node.swift
index 5d0947c..c63d506 100644
--- a/Sources/Swim/Node.swift
+++ b/Sources/Swim/Node.swift
@@ -1,8 +1,29 @@
 import Foundation
 
+public struct Attribute: Hashable {
+    public var key: String
+    public var value: String
+    
+    public init(_ pair: (String, String)) {
+        (self.key, self.value) = pair
+    }
+}
+
+public struct Attributes: ExpressibleByDictionaryLiteral, Hashable {
+    public var attributes: [Attribute]
+   
+    public init(attributes: [Attribute]) {
+        self.attributes = attributes
+    }
+    
+    public init(dictionaryLiteral elements: (String, String)...) {
+        self.attributes = elements.map(Attribute.init)
+    }
+}
+
 public enum Node: Hashable {
     // The `Node`'s name, attribute and children.
-    indirect case element(String, [String: String], Node?)
+    indirect case element(String, Attributes, Node?)
 
     // The `Node`'s text contents.
     case text(String)
@@ -49,14 +70,14 @@ extension Node: TextOutputStreamable {
             target.write("<")
             target.write(name)
 
-            for (key, value) in attributes.sorted(by: { $0 < $1 }) {
+            for attribute in attributes.attributes {
                 target.write(" ")
-                target.write(key)
+                target.write(attribute.key)
 
-                guard value != "" else { continue }
+                guard attribute.value != "" else { continue }
 
                 target.write("=\"")
-                target.write(value.replacingOccurrences(of: "\"", with: "&quot;"))
+                target.write(attribute.value.replacingOccurrences(of: "\"", with: "&quot;"))
                 target.write("\"")
             }
 
diff --git a/Sources/Swim/Visitor.swift b/Sources/Swim/Visitor.swift
index e3cdcb7..1ba0339 100644
--- a/Sources/Swim/Visitor.swift
+++ b/Sources/Swim/Visitor.swift
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import Foundation
 public protocol Visitor {
     associatedtype Result
 
-    func visitElement(name: String, attributes: [String: String], child: Node?) -> Result
+    func visitElement(name: String, attributes: Attributes, child: Node?) -> Result
 
     func visitText(text: String) -> Result
     
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ extension Visitor {
 }
 
 public extension Visitor where Result == Node {
-    func visitElement(name: String, attributes: [String: String], child: Node?) -> Result {
+    func visitElement(name: String, attributes: Attributes, child: Node?) -> Result {
         .element(name, attributes, child.map(visitNode))
     }
 
diff --git a/Tests/HTMLTests/HTMLTests.swift b/Tests/HTMLTests/HTMLTests.swift
index 674fff8..4240d4f 100644
--- a/Tests/HTMLTests/HTMLTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/HTMLTests/HTMLTests.swift
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ final class HTMLTests: XCTestCase {
         struct TextExtractionVisitor: Visitor {
             typealias Result = [String]
 
-            func visitElement(name: String, attributes: [String : String], child: Node?) -> [String] {
+            func visitElement(name: String, attributes: Attributes, child: Node?) -> [String] {
                 child.map(visitNode) ?? []
             }
 
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ final class HTMLTests: XCTestCase {
         struct Sanitizer: Visitor {
             var denyList: [Tag]
 
-            func visitElement(name: String, attributes: [String : String], child: Node?) -> Node {
+            func visitElement(name: String, attributes: Attributes, child: Node?) -> Node {
                 if denyList.contains(where: { $0.elementName == name }) {
                     let original = Node.element(name, attributes, child)