> The expression "self::@name" doesn't work; it expands to 
> "self::attribute::name" which as you can see is malformed. It turns 
> out you can't find attributes on the self:: axis (in XSLT 1.0), which 
> is too bad for this particular application.

Not quite. The principal node kind for the self axis is elements, but
self::node() will find any kind of node, and therefore
self::node()[local-name()='xyz'] will work.

In 2.0 you can do self::attribute(xyz).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/