diff --git a/tests/conf-gold/match/match34.out b/tests/conf-gold/match/match34.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f20a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/conf-gold/match/match34.out
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><out><attribute>name</attribute></out>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/conf/match/match34.xml b/tests/conf/match/match34.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65de986
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/conf/match/match34.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<doc>
+  <foo>
+    <bar name="name"/>
+  </foo>
+</doc>
diff --git a/tests/conf/match/match34.xsl b/tests/conf/match/match34.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72674b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/conf/match/match34.xsl
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<xsl:stylesheet  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
+
+  <!-- FileName: MATCH34 -->
+  <!-- Document: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath -->
+  <!-- DocVersion: 19991116 -->
+  <!-- Section: 5.2 -->
+  <!-- Creator: David Bertoni (dbertoni@apache.org) -->
+  <!-- Purpose: Test for a "@" (AbbreviatedAxisSpecifier) in a match pattern. Xalan-C would report a syntax error.
+                See Jira issue XALANC-680 -->
+
+<xsl:template match="/">
+  <out><xsl:apply-templates select="//@*"/></out>
+</xsl:template>
+
+<xsl:template match="doc//@name">
+  <attribute><xsl:value-of select="." /></attribute>
+</xsl:template>
+
+<xsl:template match="text()"/>
+
+
+  <!--
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+   * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+   * distributed with this work for additional information
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+   * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the  "License");
+   * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+   * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+   *
+   *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+   *
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+  -->
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>