ikiwiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Roadkill vs. Wiclear vs. XWiki

[[internal]]

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

[[Pagename|linkname]]

[Title]

XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)

[link text](http://example.org)

http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]

[[URL|linkname]]

[Title|http://url.to/]

[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com

Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

== Large heading

!title1
!!title2
!!!title3

= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..

**bold**
__bold__

*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>

** bold **

__bold__

**bold**

*emphasized*
_emphasized_

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

//italics//

''italic''

//Italics//

via HTML: <u>underlined</u>

<u>underlined</u>

_underline_

__underline__

`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block

<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>

{{

monospace

}}

the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted

##monospace##

via HTML: <del>deleted</del>

<strike>striked through</strike>

--Strike--

via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>

<sup>above</sup>

^^superscript^^

via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>

<sub>below</sub>

,,subscript,,

![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)

[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image

{{Image.jpg.|title}}

((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))

image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel

<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2

* list
or
- list

* Bullet List
** Sub item

*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3

* List
** list
*** list

1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works

# list

# Numbered list
## Sub item

#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4

via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>

Term:<def>
def

;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2

; term
: definition

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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter

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