Throwing User Message on blank report

Hi,
We have to build a XML Publisher report for pulling the invoices which has past due dated. For this the user will be provided with few input parameters to run this report. If the input paramters criteria provided doesn't pull up any records, the user should be throw message "The input paramter doesn't pull up any invoices. Please refine your search criteria". How to achieve this in terms of XML Publisher (The blank pdf should not get generated, but instead message should appear on the screen). Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Mohammadi

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