Hi, I'm relatively new to java development and jasper reports, so please excuse my naivety. I've been getting a sax parse exception that I think (hoping at least) will be solved with the following patch: JRStyledTextParser-trunk.patch ( http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports/tracker/view.php?id=4902 ) but i'm not entirely sure how to apply this patch. thanks in advance...