Question

I’m trying to import a moderately complex report into my java application. The report includes subqueries, a style template (jrtx) and images. Everything works great in iReport but when I try to run the report in the application it gives me the following error:

exception
org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Error parsing template XML

root cause
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Error parsing template XML

root cause
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "paragraph" must be declared.

I’m using iReport version 4.0.2 (with 4.0.1 compatiblity mode on) to develop the reports and net.sf.jasperreports 4.0.1 to run the reports on my application. NOTE: iReport versions match up to jasperReport versions.

Answer 1

Apparently, iReport’s 4.0.1 compatiblity mode does not work 100%. iReport 4.0.2 inserts a tag when messing with certain properties. The <paragraph> tag doesn’t exist in JasperReport 4.0.1. I would have caught this at compile time if I had embedded any paragraph styles in the report rather than the style template. Templates are considered at run-time.

I converted my templates like this:

From:
<jasperTemplate>
...
  <style name="in-detail-fields">
    <paragraph leftIndent="3" rightIndent="3"/>
  </style>
...
</jasperTemplate>

To:
<jasperTemplate>
...
  <style name="in-detail-fields" leftIndent="3" rightIndent="3" />
...
</jasperTemplate>

Unfortunately, iReport 4.0.2 doesn’t interpret the template correctly after changing the template like this. :-(. A better solution might be to downgrade iReport to the proper version.