PBwiki vs. MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki

CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]

CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]

[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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)

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

[http://www.externallink.com]

http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file

[http://example.org The title]

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

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

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6

= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====

==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====

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

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

**bold**

'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''

'''bold'''

**bold**

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

''italics''

''italic''
''emphasised''

''italic''

//Italics//

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

__underline__

__underline__

<u>underlined</u>

__underline__

<u>underlined</u>

<code>monospace</code>

`monospaced`

<tt>monospace</tt>

##monospace##

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

-strikethrough-

--(strikethrough)--

<s>strikethrough</s>

--Strike--

<strike>striked through</strike>

<sup>superscript</sup>

^superscript^

<sup>superscript</sup>

^^superscript^^

<sup>above</sup>

<sub>subscript</sub>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

,,subscript,,

<sub>below</sub>

[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg

{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}

[[Image:wiki.png]]

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

[ 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

<left>, <center>, <right>

only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

<center>Centered</center>

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

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

Indented block

indented text

: indented line

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

* List
** list
*** list

* list
or
- list

# Number #1
# Number #2

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2

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

# list

<dl>
</dl>

term:: definition

; term : definition

; term
: definition

Term:<def>
def

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