XSLT attribute node (id) cannot be created after the children of the containing element

Question

Typically i am doing an XSLT process over a Weblogic12 server. I kept running into this issue

net.sf.saxon.trans.DynamicError: An attribute node 
(id) cannot be created after the children of the containing element

Before the migration, our team had no problems at all...

Any idea why? i recently upgraded from BEA Weblogic3 to Oracle Enterprise Weblogic 12. Or am i missing a library?

This is plaguing our entire team! Thanks!

EDIT 1:

Error points to <xsl:attribute name="id"> in <xsl:template name="makeErrorDiv">

<td>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@colspan | @align | @style | @valign | @class | @id | @name"/>
            <xsl:if test="@colspan = '1' and $columnWidth != '' and not(@suppressColWidth='true')"><xsl:attribute name="width"><xsl:value-of select="$columnWidth"/></xsl:attribute></xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="@rowspan != '1'"><xsl:copy-of select="@rowspan"/></xsl:if>

            <xsl:if test="descendant::ErrMsg">
                <xsl:call-template name="makeErrorDiv"/>
            </xsl:if>
        </td>


<xsl:template name="makeErrorDiv">      
        <div style="display:none;">
            <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="descendant::*[ParentId]">
                    <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="descendant::ParentId[position() = 1]"/><![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:attribute>
                </xsl:when>         
                <xsl:when test="descendant::*[ErrMsg][Name]">
                    <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="descendant::*[ErrMsg][position() = 1]/Name"/><![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:attribute>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:when test="not(descendant::*[ErrMsg])">
                    <xsl:variable name="name"><xsl:value-of select="descendant::*[Name][position() = 1]/Name"/></xsl:variable>
                    <xsl:variable name="parsed"><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($name, '!')"/></xsl:variable>
                    <xsl:attribute name="id"><!--error here! -->
                        <xsl:choose>
                            <xsl:when test="$parsed = ''"><xsl:value-of select="$name"/></xsl:when>
                            <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$parsed"/></xsl:otherwise>
                        </xsl:choose>
                    <xsl:text><![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:text></xsl:attribute>   
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:when test="descendant::*[ErrMsg][not(Name)]">
                    <xsl:variable name="name"><xsl:value-of select="descendant::*[Name][position() = 1]/Name"/></xsl:variable>
                    <xsl:variable name="parsed"><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($name, '!')"/></xsl:variable>
                    <xsl:attribute name="id">
                        <xsl:choose>
                            <xsl:when test="$parsed = ''"><xsl:value-of select="$name"/></xsl:when>
                            <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$parsed"/></xsl:otherwise>
                        </xsl:choose>
                    <xsl:text><![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:text></xsl:attribute>                   
                </xsl:when>
            </xsl:choose>   
            <span style="color: #FF0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><xsl:value-of select="descendant::ErrMsg[position() = 1]"/></span>
        </div>      
    </xsl:template>

XML sample...not sure if it's helpful...the entire XML file is 1000+ lines

<DisclosureRowColor template="OneColumn" position="8" lastPosition="30" colCount="4" color1="#F2F8FE" color2="#ffffff">
                <Cell colspan="1">
                    <ListBox onchange="toggleAddressByAjax();">
                        <Name>APPLICATION_CUSTOMER.EMPLOYED_SINCE_MM!YLI</Name>
                        <Size>1</Size>
                        <Default rtexprvalue="true">mb.getValue("APPLICATION_CUSTOMER.EMPLOYED_SINCE_MM!YLI", "A")</Default>
                        <Map rtexprvalue="true">mb.getGenericLookup("V_YEAR")</Map>
                        <ReadOnly rtexprvalue="true">mb.isReadonly(2)</ReadOnly>
                    </ListBox>
                    <Label class="sTGBFBS">
                        <Caption> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jahre </Caption>
                    </Label>
                    <ListBox onchange="toggleAddressByAjax();">
                        <Name>APPLICATION_CUSTOMER.EMPLOYED_SINCE_MM!MLI</Name>
                        <Size>1</Size>
                        <Default rtexprvalue="true">mb.getValue("APPLICATION_CUSTOMER.EMPLOYED_SINCE_MM!MLI", "A")</Default>
                        <Map rtexprvalue="true">mb.getGenericLookup("V_MONTH")</Map>
                        <ReadOnly rtexprvalue="true">mb.isReadonly(2)</ReadOnly>
                    </ListBox>
                    <Label class="sTGBGBS">
                        <Caption> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Monate </Caption>
                    </Label>
                    <ErrMsg/>
                </Cell>
            </DisclosureRowColor>

Answer 1

I think your problem might be the <xsl:text> nodes inside of your <xsl:attribute> element

<xsl:text><![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:text></xsl:attribute>

I think that should just say

<![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:attribute>

since you're creating an attribute, not a text node.

Update: I tried to reproduce the error, but couldn't. BUT, I did find that saxon was using whitespace in the attribute. You might want to try Getting rid of some of the whitespace between some of the XSL elements.

<xsl:when test="not(descendant::*[ErrMsg])">
                <xsl:variable name="name"><xsl:value-of select="descendant::*[Name][position() = 1]/Name"/></xsl:variable>
                <xsl:variable name="parsed"><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($name, '!')"/></xsl:variable>
                <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="$parsed = ''"><xsl:value-of select="$name"/></xsl:when>
                        <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$parsed"/></xsl:otherwise>
                    </xsl:choose><xsl:text><![CDATA[$err]]></xsl:text></xsl:attribute>   
            </xsl:when>

And this might solve your the actual error you're seeing:

  <div style="display:none;"><xsl:choose>

I think some text must be getting added to your 'div' element before the id attribute can be added.