APEX 4.1 - APACHE FOP PDF generation problem.

Hi all,
I'm having problem with PDF generation using APACH FOP on OC4J.
When I test my print server as described here:
http://marcsewtz.blogspot.com/2008/06/heres-another-posting-on-pdf-printing.html
everything works without problem. But when I upload my Layout to APEX and try to generate PDF from apex I'm getting error:
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Unexpected EOF.
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:320)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLReader.popXMLReader(XMLReader.java:549)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1375)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:362)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:308)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:337)
     at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLProcessor.newXSLStylesheet(XSLProcessor.java:714)
     at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLStylesheet.<init>(XSLStylesheet.java:322)
     at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet.<init>(XSLStylesheet.java:114)
     at apex_fop._jspService(_apex__fop.java:71)
     [SRC:/apex_fop.jsp:21]
I could see similar post here:
Handling Special characters in call to apex_util.download_print_document
But it doesn't explain my case as it's crashing even when I generate empty pdf(no data so no special characters, only empty XML file with no data should be sent to print server)
Is there any way to see what xml is sent do print server for processing? That could eventually show where is a problem.
Palo

My mistake, there was really an "&" character in my template. now when I replaced it with %26 it works.
However I would be still interested if there is a way to see what data is APEX engine sending to print server cause it will help me to find this kind of errors.
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