CanvasWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. XWiki

[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]

[pagename]

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)

[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]

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

http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]

{title|url}

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

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

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

!, !!, !!!

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

**bold**

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

*bold*

**bold**

**bold**

//italics//

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

_italic_

''italics''

//Italics//

__underlined__

<u>underlined</u>

<u>underline</u>

__under__

__underline__

''monospace''

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

=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

##monospace##

<del>strikethrough</del>

<strike>striked through</strike>

<strike>strikethrough</strike>

<<strike>> (using custom tags)

--Strike--

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>above</sup>

<sup>superscript</sup>

<<super>> (using custom tags)

^^superscript^^

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>below</sub>

<sub>subscript</sub>

<<sub>> (using custom tags)

,,subscript,,

{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}

[ 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

%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png

{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page

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

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

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS

available through custom tags

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

N/A

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

multiple spaces ->  

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* list
or
- list

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2

+
++
+++
++++

* List
** list
*** list

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# list

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

#
##
###
####

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

Plugin

Term:<def>
def

$ Term: Definition

; term
: definition

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