diff --git a/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-attribute.xml b/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-attribute.xml
index 9b6028c218..601182fbf9 100644
--- a/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-attribute.xml
+++ b/reference/xmlwriter/functions/xmlwriter-start-attribute.xml
@@ -48,6 +48,34 @@
   </para>
  </refsect1>
 
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <example xml:id="xmlwriter-start-attribute.example.basic">
+   <title>Basic <methodname>XMLWriter::startAttribute</methodname> Usage</title>
+   <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$writer = new XMLWriter;
+$writer->openURI('php://output');
+$writer->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');?>
+$writer->startElement('element');
+$writer->startAttribute('attribute');
+$writer->text('value');
+$writer->endAttribute();
+$writer->endElement();
+$writer->endDocument();
+]]>
+   </programlisting>
+   &example.outputs.similar;
+   <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<element attribute="value"/>
+]]>
+   </screen>
+  </example>
+ </refsect1>
+
  <refsect1 role="seealso">
   &reftitle.seealso;
   <para>