Using xml:space="preserve" in a stylesheet generally isn't a good idea. In
this case I think it has led to you outputting a whitespace text node child
of an element before producing an attribute of that element. And then you've
been caught by a poor error message - which might be fixed if you moved to a
more recent release, as it's a known problem area.

In XSLT 1.0 this was a recoverable error and the processor was allowed to
recover by simply ignoring the offending attribute. The error was changed in
XSLT 2.0 to be non-recoverable, which might account for the difference
between processors. 

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Tickner [mailto:spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 06 November 2008 19:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Cannot have an attribute node (style) whose 
> parent is a document node
> 
> Hello everyone, and thanks in advance for the help. I'm doing 
> some pretty simple(I thought) xslt processing and I've come 
> across an error I cannot figure out. I'm using Saxon 9.0.0.2 
> through Stylus studio.
> 
> Test XML
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <w:wordDocument xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core"
> xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
> xmlns:ve="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
> xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
>                 xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
> xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
> xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"
> xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint"
> 
> xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml/sp2"
> xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core"
> xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
> w:macrosPresent="no" w:embeddedObjPresent="no"
>                 w:ocxPresent="no" xml:space="preserve">
> 
>         <w:p wsp:rsidR="00AC5566" wsp:rsidRPr="00C54D3A"
> wsp:rsidRDefault="00980E79" wsp:rsidP="00AC5566">
>             <w:pPr>
>                 <w:pStyle 
> w:val="FrontMatter-Title-SessionandParliament"/>
>                 <w:rPr>
>                     <w:lang w:val="EN-US"/>
>                 </w:rPr>
>             </w:pPr>
>             <w:r wsp:rsidR="00AC5566" wsp:rsidRPr="00C54D3A">
>                 <w:rPr>
>                     <w:noProof/>
>                     <w:lang w:val="EN-US"/>
>                 </w:rPr>
>                 <w:t>Fourth</w:t>
>             </w:r>
>             <w:r wsp:rsidR="00AC5566" wsp:rsidRPr="00C54D3A">
>                 <w:rPr>
>                     <w:lang w:val="EN-US"/>
>                 </w:rPr>
>                 <w:t> Session, 38th Parliament</w:t>
>             </w:r>
>         </w:p>
> </w:wordDocument>
> 
> test.xsl
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> 	xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core"
> xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
> xmlns:ve="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
> xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
>     xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
> xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
> xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"
> xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint"
>     
> xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml/sp2"
> xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core"
> xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
> w:macrosPresent="no" w:embeddedObjPresent="no"
>     w:ocxPresent="no" xml:space="preserve">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<root>
> 		<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 	</root>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template 
> match="w:wordDocument"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="w:p">
> 	<xsl:if test="normalize-space(.) != ''">
> 		<p>
> 			<xsl:if test="w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val">
> 				<xsl:attribute 
> name="style"><xsl:value-of 
> select="w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val"/></xsl:attribute>
> 			</xsl:if>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 		</p>
> 	</xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Saxon Error:
> 
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Error: at xsl:attribute on line 20 of
> file:///c:/Test/test.xsl:
>   XTDE0420: Cannot have an attribute node (style) whose 
> parent is a document node
> 
> 	at 
> com.exln.stylus.CSaxon8Driver.doProcessing(CSaxon8Driver.java:281)
> 	at 
> com.exln.stylus.CProcessorDriver.process(CProcessorDriver.java:101)
> test.xsl (20, 1)
> Error: at xsl:attribute on line 20 of file:///c:/Test/test.xsl:
> XTDE0420: Cannot have an attribute node (style) whose parent 
> is a document node
> 
> 
> When I run it through the Stylus Built-in processor I get the 
> output I expect:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' ?>
> <root xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core"
> xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
> xmlns:ve="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
> xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
> xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
> xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
> xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"
> xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint"
> xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml/sp2"
> xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core"
> xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags">
> 
> 		<p 
> style="FrontMatter-Title-SessionandParliament">Fourth 
> Session, 38th Parliament</p> </root>
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Spencer