Hi, This is a kind of warning and wont effect the report output or execution. This is triggered because of the textfield is of style or html , but a single ampersand character in it is not a valid styled text value. Styled text must be valid XML content, except only for an optional <st> root tag, which is added automatically by JR when processing the value. The single "&" is not valid XML content because ampersand is special XML character and needs to be escaped, so the attempt to parse it as XML obviously fails. If styled text parsing failures don't need to appear in your logs, then you can turn them off using your preferred logging library configuration. For example, if you use log4j, you could add this line to the log4j.properties in your classpath: log4j.logger.net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser=OFF