I wanted to accomplish what was asked in this post, but the question was never fully answered. I am importing statements from a legacy database that contains HTML inside of the entries. I do not have control of the architecture and must work within these boundaries.
It renders the formatting (b, i, etc) but the tables are rendered in column/row order on new lines instead of formatted as a table.
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You can create tables using standard JRXML, without resorting to embedding HTML, an example is bundled with the JasperReports download under ${JASPERREPORTS_HOME}/demo/samples/table
Can I keep the table related code in my database and have jasper interpret the "Jasper table" code?
Is there any other way around this? Pre/post-processing? The only thing I can think of is using
<pre>
Column 1 Column 2
Name:_____ Name_______
Signature:_____ Signature_______
</pre>
Luckily, I think it's all static text so no need for substitutions...