org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it

I'm getting an error when I try to generate an element that should look like

<hold/>

Using the java client code generated by Axis2. java snippet

HoldPayment hold = new HoldPayment()
cr.setHold(hold);

but when I fire it off I get an error of WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR. If I don't include this element in the message being fired off it works fine. anyone got any idea how to fix it?

AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
 faultSubcode:
 faultString: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it.
 faultActor:
 faultNode:
 faultDetail:
        {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ParentNode.internalInsertBefore(ParentNode.java:352)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ParentNode.insertBefore(ParentNode.java:284)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.NodeImpl.appendChild(NodeImpl.java:235)
        at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.onEndChild(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:305)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1090)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:601)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1774)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2930)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
        at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:796)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:144)
        at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
        at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
        at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
        at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
        at au.com.virginblue.www.schema._2005._02.booking_wsdl.BookingBindingStub.createReservation(BookingBindingStub.java:1803)
        at com.test.GetDJBooking.main(GetDJBooking.java:215)

        {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}hostname:test.com.au

org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it.
        at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:701)
        at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:796)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:144)
        at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
        at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
        at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
        at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
        at au.com.virginblue.www.schema._2005._02.booking_wsdl.BookingBindingStub.createReservation(BookingBindingStub.java:1803)
        at com.nhh.dj.GetDJBooking.main(GetDJBooking.java:215)
Caused by: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ParentNode.internalInsertBefore(ParentNode.java:352)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ParentNode.insertBefore(ParentNode.java:284)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.NodeImpl.appendChild(NodeImpl.java:235)
        at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.onEndChild(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:305)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1090)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:601)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1774)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2930)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
        ... 14 more

I use this implementation to add Node from one XML document to other.

Node firstDocImportedNode = firstDoc.importNode(secondDocsNode, true);
firstDocNode.appendChild(firstDocImportedNode );

See if this helps. Trick is just importing a Node to other Document, instead of directly appending.

We saw this error when send SOAP message with CXF.

org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a different document than the one that created it.
at org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode.internalInsertBefore(ParentNode.java:351)
at org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode.insertBefore(ParentNode.java:283)
at org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.insertBefore(CoreDocumentImpl.java:393)
at org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.appendChild(NodeImpl.java:236)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPDocument.appendChild(SOAPDocument.java:226)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPPartImpl.appendChild(SOAPPartImpl.java:300)
at org.apache.cxf.staxutils.W3CDOMStreamWriter.setChild(W3CDOMStreamWriter.java:119) [cxf-common-utilities-2.5.4.jar:2.5.4]
at org.apache.cxf.staxutils.W3CDOMStreamWriter.newChild(W3CDOMStreamWriter.java:109) [cxf-common-utilities-2.5.4.jar:2.5.4]
at org.apache.cxf.staxutils.W3CDOMStreamWriter.writeStartElement(W3CDOMStreamWriter.java:137) [cxf-common-utilities-2.5.4.jar:2.5.4]
at org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.interceptor.SoapOutInterceptor.writeSoapEnvelopeStart(SoapOutInterceptor.java:122) [cxf-rt-bindings-soap-2.4.6.jar:2.4.6]

Error was in SAAJOutInterceptor that has processed before SoapOutInterceptor. Saaj implementation was from JBoss. And it create document with another classloader. This document from Saaj break SoapOutInterceptor.

We solved this problem adding dependency to our module.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj</groupId>
    <artifactId>saaj-impl</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>
</dependency>

You can't copy a node from one document and paste it to another. An attempt to do so results in this type of error.

The node has to be properly imported. If I remember well, the Document class offers the right methods for this common task.

EDIT

The problem might be in the code behind the setHold method. The element has to be imported. If this is all autogenerated code, then looking for a newer version of axis could solve the problem. See my comment, where I mentioned an axis 1.3/1.4 issue.

The answer is in complete adherence to Sudheer Palyam's answer and seeks to add a bit of clarity to his answer.

In the example below, I have a Node 'node' which I have created somewhere else and is a part of different XML Document.

Secondly, I have a NodeList whose Nodes I want to append in the Node 'node' mentioned above.

So, I imported the nodes from NodeList one by one into the Document of Node 'node'. Once a node is imported, I appended it into Node 'node'.

Document ownerDocument = node.getOwnerDocument();
for(int count = 0; count < otherDocumentNodeChildNodes.getLength(); count++)
{
    Node child = otherDocumentNodeChildNodes.item(count);
    Node importedNode = ownerDocument.importNode(child, true);
    node.appendChild(importedNode);
}