diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/Enums.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/Enums.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/Enums.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/Enums.h
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
 };
 
 /// Returns string representation of the given dimension level type.
-inline std::string toMLIRString(DimLevelType dlt) {
+constexpr const char *toMLIRString(DimLevelType dlt) {
   switch (dlt) {
   // TODO: should probably raise an error instead of printing it...
   case DimLevelType::Undef:
diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorAttrDefs.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorAttrDefs.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorAttrDefs.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorAttrDefs.td
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@
   );
 
   let extraClassDeclaration = [{
+    void print(llvm::raw_ostream &os) const;
+
     /// Special value for dynamic offset/size/stride.
     static constexpr int64_t kDynamic = -1;
     static constexpr bool isDynamic(int64_t v) { return v == kDynamic; }
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorDialect.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorDialect.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorDialect.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/IR/SparseTensorDialect.cpp
@@ -209,14 +209,18 @@
   return isDynamic(v) ? "?" : std::to_string(v);
 }
 
+void SparseTensorDimSliceAttr::print(llvm::raw_ostream &os) const {
+  os << '(';
+  os << getStaticString(getOffset());
+  os << ", ";
+  os << getStaticString(getSize());
+  os << ", ";
+  os << getStaticString(getStride());
+  os << ')';
+}
+
 void SparseTensorDimSliceAttr::print(AsmPrinter &printer) const {
-  printer << "(";
-  printer << getStaticString(getOffset());
-  printer << ", ";
-  printer << getStaticString(getSize());
-  printer << ", ";
-  printer << getStaticString(getStride());
-  printer << ")";
+  print(printer.getStream());
 }
 
 static ParseResult parseOptionalStaticSlice(int64_t &result,