I ran into this earlier, but today it happened to me again, so apparently a blog would be a good idea.

I use quite some Xslt's in my OSB Project. Merely because I'm more used to XSLT than in XQuery, but also because I've the feeling that it is better suitable in tranforming big XSD. And I found a few minor problems with some XSD's in the XQuery mapper of OEPE.

Anyway, in an XSLT there is a special attribute "exclude-result-prefixes" that allows you to name all the namespace-prefixes that you declare for referencing functions that should be excluded from the resulting xml.
Today (as I did before) I added some prefixes to the attribute. Refreshing my the XSLT folder in OEPE and publishing the project lead me into the following exception:

Conflicts found during publish.
[MyPipelinePair, Response Pipeline, MyOperation-TransformResponse, Replace action] XQuery expression validation failed: com.bea.wli.sb.resources.ResourceException: An error occurred creating the XSLT executor: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The XSLT resource "XSLT MyService/CBS/V1/xslt/MyXSLT" is not in a valid state..
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 19; columnNumber: 69; Element type "xsl:variable" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
[MyPipelinePair, Response Pipeline, MyOperation-TransformResponse, Replace action] XQuery expression validation failed: com.bea.wli.sb.resources.ResourceException: An error occurred creating the XSLT executor: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The XSLT resource "XSLT MyService/CBS/V1/xslt/MyXSLT" is not in a valid state..

Reading this error, what do you think was wrong with my XSLT?
At first I indeed checked my variable declarations, but I did not touch those. It appeared however that  publisher in OEPE has a limitation in the attribute-length for this attribute.It's one of those errors that does not say what it means at all.

I use the JDeveloper XSLT-mapper, and if you create a new XSLT with it, by default you're provided with several namespace-declarations for xpath-extensions functions for bpel, bpm/bpmn, humanworkflow, ldap, mediator, etc. Most of them you won't use, especially in an OSB project, since (in 11g that is) those functions are not supported by OSB. So you can remove all the unnecessary namespace declarations from the header, making them obsolete for the "exclude-result-prefixes"-attribute. This makes not only the XSLT-header shorter, but it allows you to cleanup the "exclude-result-prefixes" as well.

When the "exclude-result-prefixes"-attribute is shortened enough, the xslt is publishable again.