Bug 102511 Enhance Highlighting to support Banding
Using the highlight feature to create a banded report results in a messy report. To recreate, create a simple tabular report. In the designer, select the detail row, go to the Highlights tab on the Property Editor view. Add a new highlight, set its condition to be "row[0] % 2" "Equals" "0". Set the formatting for the highlight to have a gray background color. When the report is previewed, alternating rows have a background color for each cell. The issue is that the backgrounds for the cells are not contiguous, there are spaces between each cell's background, and if a cell has a null value there is no background color. In this situation the highlight should apply to the row, instead it is being applied to each cell. If I manually set the background of a detail row to be gray I get the effect I want.
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/data/dte/ReportQueryBuilder.java
{
			ArrayList filters = new ArrayList( );
			if ( iter != null )
			{
				while ( iter.hasNext( ) )
				{
					FilterConditionHandle filterHandle = (FilterConditionHandle) iter
							.next( );
					IFilterDefinition filter = createFilter( filterHandle );
					filters.add( filter );
				}
			}
			return filters;
		}
		/**
		 * create filter array given a Listing design element
		 * 
		 * @param listing
		 *            the ListingDesign
		 * @return the filter array
		 */
		public ArrayList createFilters( ListingDesign listing )
		{
			return createFilters( ( (ListingHandle) listing.getHandle( ) )
					.filtersIterator( ) );
		}
		/**
		 * create fileter array given a DataSetHandle
		 * 
		 * @param dataSet