Laying out report elements
As
we saw in Chapter 3, Creating your First Report, a report can contain the following sections: a report title, a page header, a page footer, a column header, a column footer, a detail section, a report summary, and a last page footer. These sections are defined by the <title>, <pageHeader>, <pageFooter>, <columnHeader>, <columnFooter>, <detail>, <summary>, and <lastPageFooter> JRXML elements, respectively.
Each of these elements contains a single <band> element as its only subelement. The <band> element can contain zero or more <line>, <rectangle>, <ellipse>, <image>, <staticText>, <textField>, <subReport>, or <elementGroup> subelements. Except for <elementGroup>, each of these elements must contain a single <reportElement> ...
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