Hi, This is a sample textfield in one of my reports. <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true"> <reportElement key="textHeaderColumn" style="Crosstab Data Text" x="0" y="0" width="96" height="30" forecolor="#FFFFFF"/> <box leftPadding="0" rightPadding="0"/> <textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Middle"> <font fontName="Arial" size="11"/> </textElement> <textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$V{name}]]></textFieldExpression> </textField> If the $V{name} contains an ampersand, the following will be added in logs (report is rendered correctly, though). FATAL JRStyledTextParser:1035 - Error parsing styled text. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference. Any solution to not have this in logs? Thanks.