Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "Create a new report project called BIRT Book Chapter 5 examples."

A block of code will be set as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Employees xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Employee>
<firstName>John</firstName>
<lastName>Ward</lastName>
<jobTitle>Developer</jobTitle>

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "Under the Data Explorer pane, right- click on Data Sources and select New Data Source".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.