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
addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_RIGHT_STYLE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_RIGHT_WIDTH_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_TOP_COLOR_PROP, handle,
				true );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_TOP_STYLE_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.BORDER_TOP_WIDTH_PROP, handle );
		
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.MARGIN_TOP_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.MARGIN_LEFT_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.MARGIN_BOTTOM_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.MARGIN_RIGHT_PROP, handle );
		
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PADDING_TOP_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PADDING_LEFT_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PADDING_BOTTOM_PROP, handle );
		addReportDefaultPropertyValue( Style.PADDING_RIGHT_PROP, handle );
		report.setRootStyleName( assignStyleName( inheritableReportStyle ) );
		if ( nonInheritableReportStyle.isEmpty( ) )
		{
			nonInheritableReportStyle = null;
		}
		else
		{
			report.setDefaultStyle( nonInheritableReportStyle );
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Creates the body style for master page.
	 * 
	 * @param design