These links are broken. I'm looking for xml sample to show how styles are applied. Inline is fine. I used the following code(added the style='xx' in an attempt to overcome a SaxParse error I'm getting).: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "style" must be declared. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:1929) I've tried several variations of this with no success. Our Jasper version is 0.6.0 as we are expanding an earlier implementation. We are planning to upgrade in a separate effort. ** Code attached **Using: DOCTYPE jasperReport PUBLIC "//JasperReports//DTD Report Design//EN" "http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/dtds/jasperreport.dtd"> Can we point to explicit version of the DTD? Is this necesary? <! Code:<!-- Atempting to get alternating row colors --><jasperReportname="nccDetail"columnCount="1"printOrder="Vertical"orientation="Landscape"pageWidth="1670"pageHeight="725"columnWidth="1640"columnSpacing="0"leftMargin="15"rightMargin="15"topMargin="15"bottomMargin="15"whenNoDataType="NoPages"isTitleNewPage="false"isSummaryNewPage="false"><property name="ireport.scriptlethandling" value="0"/><property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/><property name="ireport.x" value="0"/><property name="ireport.y" value="0"/><style style="someStyle" name="rowColr" mode="Transparent" isDefault="true" pen="None" backcolor="#FFFFFF"><conditionalStyle><conditionExpression><![CDATA[$V{REPORT_COUNT}%2 == 1]]></conditionExpression><style style="none" backcolor="#99CCFF"/></conditionalStyle></style>**********<textField pattern="" isBlankWhenNull="false"> <reportElement x="880" y="0" width="60" height="15" style="rowColr"/> <textElement textAlignment="Center"/> <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{columnName}]]></textFieldExpression></textField>
