Called by the link internals to set an attribute on this node.
Source
Response setAttribute( String name, Object value, Responder responder, Response response) { if (response != null) { return response..close(); } else { if (!name.startsWith("@")) { name = "@${name}"; } attributes[name] = value; if (provider is SerializableNodeProvider) { (provider as SerializableNodeProvider).persist(); } return null; } }