Syntax Highlighting

Wikis are often used for coordinating distributed software development or to store code snippets. Some Wiki engines can hightlight (colorize) source code when it is added to a wikipage.

Note that this feature may never be useful if your wiki subject focus is not technology related at all. On the other hand, even if your wiki has nothing to do with computers, your wiki community members may end up discussing technical matters on some pages of your wiki. No harm in having this feature available.

We can see DokuWiki syntax highlighting in action with this example snippet of java code:

/** 
 * The HelloWorldApp class implements an application that
 * simply displays "Hello World!" to the standard output.
 */
class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); //Display the string.
    }
}