The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference error in jasper reports

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Abhinash picture Abhinash · Jun 21, 2012 · Viewed 18.8k times · Source

I have a Master report that has 4 subreports. The report gets generated successfully when I generate the report in iReport(version 4.1.3). However when the report gets deployed in JBoss server it gives the following error 

Error Parsing Styled Text
"org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference jasper reports".

Its corresponding blank report that does not have any mapping with the datsource is getting generated successfully. However the one which fetches the values from the data source is throwing this error.

Could you please tell me what could be the issue.

iReport version: 4.1.3

Datasource: XML datasource

Please let me know if you need more information.

Answer

Anuj Patel picture Anuj Patel · Jun 21, 2012

My guess is that your XML datasource contains '&' character in some data.

If so replace '&' with & and try, it should work properly.

PS: You should accept answers if they help you.!!

EDIT : Check out this discussion at JasperForge Forum. Says the same

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