diff --git a/src/node.rs b/src/node.rs
index 78f1a8ee..3d6a716c 100644
--- a/src/node.rs
+++ b/src/node.rs
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Text {
 pub type Attributes = indexmap::IndexMap<QualName, StrTendril>;
 
 /// A Map of attributes that doesn't preserve the order of the attributes.
+/// 
+/// Please enable the `deterministic` feature for order-preserving
+/// (de)serialization.
 #[cfg(not(feature = "deterministic"))]
 pub type Attributes = HashMap<QualName, StrTendril>;