Hello, While upgrading xwiki 0.9 to 1.2, we run accross this problem: 1) we copy db to a new db for upgrade 2) we fix a column according to docs (issuing an alter statement) 3) we start first time xwiki 1.2 4) we get bunch of document upgrade messages 5) we get some warnings about author/date in history 6) we upload and set xwiki skin usnig our old skin (which wasmainly the old defuat skin with some customized css) 7) we get this error: (how are we supposed to fix it?) org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Encountered ">Blog<.a><span> | <.span> <a href=\"......view.Main.KnowledgeBase\",\"view\")\">Knowledge Base</a><span> | </span> \r\n-->\r\n<a href=\"" at line 3, column 38 of view.Main Was expecting one of: "," ... ")" ... <WHITESPACE> ... at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:212) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:152) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.render(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:95) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.interpret(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:60) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.renderText(DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.java:247) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.interpretText(DefaultXWikiRenderingEngine.java:150) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.parseContent(XWiki.java:1313) at com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki.parseContent(XWiki.java:554) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor79.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:295) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:245) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:203) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:294) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:318) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:238) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:152) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:1354) at com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:607) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor59.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:295) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:245) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:203) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:294) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:318) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:194) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:170) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:318) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:238) at com.xpn.xwiki.render.XWikiVelocityRenderer.evaluate(XWikiVelocityRenderer.java:152) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:1354) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.parseTemplate(Utils.java:105) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:158) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:673) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:466) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:399) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:302) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom(StandardHostValve.java:362) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.status(StandardHostValve.java:283) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:136) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:526) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:825) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:738) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:526) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) thanks for suggestions and regards, David Delbecq