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/parser/EngineIRVisitor.java
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		return style;
	}
	protected DimensionType createDimension( DimensionHandle handle )
	{
		if ( handle == null || !handle.isSet( ) )
		{
			return null;
		}
		
		if ( handle.isKeyword( ) )
		{
			return new DimensionType( handle.getStringValue( ) );
		}
		
		double measure = handle.getMeasure( );
		String unit = handle.getUnits( );
		if ( DimensionValue.DEFAULT_UNIT.equals( unit ) )
		{
			unit = defaultUnit;
		}
		return new DimensionType( measure, unit );
	}
	protected void setupListingItem( ListingDesign listing, ListingHandle handle )
	{