Simple chart proving difficult

Hi
I'm trying to create a chart with the months of the year's names on the x-axis and the values for those months as the y. My main question is what the data source should look like in xml. I'm hand coding the xml, so not using Oracle Reports to generate it.
I tried:
<fig1>
<row>
<name>Q2</name>
<Q2>1</Q2>
<name>Q3</name>
<Q3>2</Q3>
<name>Q4</name>
<Q4>3</Q4>
</row>
</fig1>
Which sort of works, but the labels I wanted on the x-axis appears as legends instead, with only the first label appearing on the x-axis. I found some help on the internet that suggest you must add the following (colorMode="COLOR_BY_GROUP") to the <Graph> tag, but this does not work. It just looses the color with the problem remaining.
Please help!
Thanks
Francois

Sounds like you just signed up to the forum to try get some homework done. You basically have to right an expression compiler. Token by Token you build the expression into some type of structure, and they you evaluate it. I've written a compiler... I've had worse, you really should do it yourself, you'll learn something.

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