Give JasperReports a try. Use iReport to create the .jrxml files. JapserReports can handle complex layouts. For those parts of the report based on different queries have a look at using subreports embedded into the main report. Just like @Adrian Smith’s solution this approach will separate the report layout editing from the data sourcing.
Elaborating on what @MartinHonnen has already helpfully commented… The error, Content is not allowed in prolog. arises because the XML prolog, which is everything before the root element in an XML document, has textual content that is not allowed. The error does not necessarily have to have occurred before the XML declaration. Specifically, the prolog … Read more
I just got it, a late answer(tested on FOP 1.0) —— All you need is to set an uri resolver for your factory, as following works for me: TransformerFactory transFact = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); StreamSource xsltSource = new StreamSource(xsl); // XXX for ‘xsl:import’ to load other xsls from class path transFact.setURIResolver(new ClasspathResourceURIResolver()); Templates cachedXSLT = transFact.newTemplates(xsltSource); Transformer … Read more
Three steps must be taken for chinese characters to correctly show in a PDF file created with FOP (this is also true for all characters not available in the default font, and more generally to use a non-default font). Let us use this simple fo example to show the warnings produced by FOP when something … Read more