The reset attribute gets written out in xml_module's export_to_xml code, after the subclassed definition_to_xml has returned:

for key, value in self.xml_attributes.items():
            if key not in self.metadata_to_strip:
                xml_object.set(key, value)

The name attribute is more circuitous. It is an old, but still recognized, format of url_name. It is used to create the output file (also in xml_module's exort_to_xml method):

url_path = name_to_pathname(self.url_name)
filepath = self._format_filepath(self.category, url_path)