I found the information in this thread very useful, but I'm still having a slightly different problem with the & character. I would like to include an HTML link in a text field using an XML file as my data source. The simple case below works and everything renders correctly including the link in my PDF output: Report Text Field Definition <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true"> <reportElement stretchType="RelativeToBandHeight" x="400" y="20" width="155" height="20"/> <textElement markup="html"/> <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{HtmlLink}]]></textFieldExpression> </textField>Desired HTML For help go to: <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> XML element <HtmlLink>For help go to: <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a></ HtmlLink > PDF rendering For help go to: Google However, when I try and add more than one parameter to my link (? for first param, & for multiple params), the & character completely messes up the style and all the source HTML is clearly displayed. For example:Desired HTML For more help go to: <a href="http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?page=portal_groups.cs&hl=en">Google Help</a> XML element <HtmlLink>For more help go to: <a href="http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?page=portal_groups.cs&hl=en">Google Help</a></ HtmlLink > PDF rendering For more help go to: <a href="http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?page=portal_groups.cs&hl=en" type="Reference">Google Help</a> Obviously, I don't want my users to see the source HTML for the "a href" tag, and I don't want to limit my users data by restricting them to only one parameter max for HTML links. Also I do not know where the additional text type="Reference" comes from in the displayed link. It must be some type of short circuit with the & character and the HTML markup processor. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, TK Post Edited by tkofford at 02/23/2012 15:59 Post Edited by tkofford at 02/23/2012 16:00
