Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
As of now, no they cannot. As you pointed out, they can only be obtained from dungeon chests and all dungeon chests in the world already exist with their contents already selected by a previous version of Minecraft. In order to add name tags we would need to make the world larger, regenerate parts of the world, or get a custom crafting recipe to make them craftable.
Would it be possible, perhaps, to get a custom crafting plugin whereby 1 saddle = 1 name tag? Considering they're both intended to be primarily found in dungeons it shouldn't skew the balance too much.