DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

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

[[internal]]

[[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)

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

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

[http://example.org The title]

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

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

Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------

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

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

**bold**

**bold**
__bold__

'''bold'''

**bold**

//italics//

*emphasized*
_emphasized_

''italic''

//Italics//

__underlined__

via HTML: <u>underlined</u>

<u>underlined</u>

__underline__

''monospace''

`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block

<tt>monospace</tt>

##monospace##

<del>strikethrough</del>

via HTML: <del>deleted</del>

<s>strikethrough</s>

--Strike--

<sup>superscript</sup>

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

<sup>superscript</sup>

^^superscript^^

<sub>subscript</sub>

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

<sub>subscript</sub>

,,subscript,,

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

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

[[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

Plugin

<center>Centered</center>

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

N/A

: indented line

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

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

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

* List
** list
*** list

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

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

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2

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

Plugin

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

; term : definition

; term
: definition

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

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