XML Report Error ( java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException ) or ( oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Expected name instead of . )

XML Report Log Error Message

Template code: TEMPLATE_NAME
Template app:  GMI
Language:      en
Territory:     00
Output type:   PDF
[5/8/12 1:56:05 PM] [UNEXPECTED] [347969:RT17367773] java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor66.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618)
at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeParse(XSLT10gR1.java:517)
at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(XSLT10gR1.java:224)
at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLTWrapper.transform(XSLTWrapper.java:177)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:1044)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:997)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:212)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.createFO(FOProcessor.java:1657)
at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.generate(FOProcessor.java:967)
at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.runProcessTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:5888)
at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3438)
at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3527)
at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.XMLPublisherProcessor.process(XMLPublisherProcessor.java:247)
at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.OPPRequestThread.run(OPPRequestThread.java:157)
Caused by: oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Expected name instead of  .
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:337)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLReader.scanNameChars(XMLReader.java:1061)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLReader.scanQName(XMLReader.java:1871)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLReader.getEntity(XMLReader.java:2125)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseContentEntityRef(NonValidatingParser.java:1654)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1272)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:338)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:285)
at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:289)
... 16 more
Reason -
Some Column having the special chr contents

Solution-
Remove the special chr from the report columns or use replace function for removing the special chr at report level.