The entity name should immediately follow "&" in the entity reference error in jasper reports

Question

I have a main report that has 4 subheadings. A report is generated successfully when I create a report in iReport (version 4.1.3). However, when the report is deployed to the 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". 

The corresponding empty report, which has no mapping to datsource, was generated successfully. However, one that retrieves values ​​from the data source throws this error.

Could you tell me what could be the problem.

iReport version: 4.1.3

Data Source: XML Data Source

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Answer 1

I assume that your XML data source contains an "&" character in some data.

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

PS: You must accept the answers if they help you. !!

EDIT: Check out this discussion on the JasperForge forum. Says the same

Answer 2

Common in xml how to avoid errors:

• ampersand (&) escaped to &
  
• double quotes (") are reset to "
  
• single quotes (') are reset to '
  
• less than (<) shielded to . < . <
  
• more than (>) is escaped to . > . >
  

Answer 3

You should avoid the special character. You can look at StringEscapeUtils from the Apache Commons Lang library.