Exception like Pen must be declared

[pnvswamy]

i am using Pen tag in my report with text fields like
<textField hyperlinkType="None" isStretchWithOverflow="true" isBlankWhenNull="true">
    <reportElement x="750" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
    <box leftPadding="0" rightPadding="1">
     <pen lineWidth="1.0"/>
     <topPen lineWidth="0.0"/>
     <leftPen lineWidth="0.0"/>
     <bottomPen lineWidth="0.0"/>
     <rightPen lineWidth="1.0"/>
    </box>
    <textElement>
     <font fontName="Verdana" size="10" isPdfEmbedded="true" pdfFontName="Courier"/>
    </textElement>
    <textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$F{endDate}]]></textFieldExpression>
   </textField>

But i am getting Exception like
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "pen" must be declared.
 at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.loadXML(JRXmlLoader.java:243)
 at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.loadXML(JRXmlLoader.java:226)
 at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:214)
 at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:168)
 at com.sutisoft.hvm.struts.action.PmAppraisalReport.reviewReport(PmAppraisalReport.java:148)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
 at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchAction.java:280)
 at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.execute(DispatchAction.java:216)
 at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
 at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
 at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
 at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:525)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "pen" must be declared.
 at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.emptyElement(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1647)
 at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.loadXML(JRXmlLoader.java:239)
 ... 30 more

[lucianc]

You have an old JasperReports jar on your classpath.

<pen> was introduced in JR 2.0.3.

HTH,

Lucian

[shrije]

I had  this issue just yesterday. This is the way i fixed it. The issue occurs if we have multiple iReports installed on  your machine. Obviously if one of them is prior to 2.0.3 as Lucian has suggested.

Steps to get away with the problem:-

1. Delete the folder ".iReport" from the file system location Desktop<UserName>.

2. Also delete the folder "flexdock" from the file system location Desktop<UserName>.

where <UserName> is the user name displayed as per your login.