ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

[[internal]]

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

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]

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)

WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]

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

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

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

[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]

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

http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net

Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------

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

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3

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

!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline

**bold**
__bold__

**bold**

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

__bold__

**bold**

__bold text__
**bold text**

*emphasized*
_emphasized_

//italics//

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

''italics''

//Italics//

''ialic text''

via HTML: <u>underlined</u>

__underlined__

<u>underlined</u>

%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%

__underline__

optional or via css

`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block

''monospace''

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

{{monospace}}

##monospace##

==monospaced text==

via HTML: <del>deleted</del>

<del>strikethrough</del>

<strike>striked through</strike>

%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%

--Strike--

optional or via css

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

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>above</sup>

%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%

^^superscript^^

^^superscript text^^

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

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>below</sub>

%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%

,,subscript,,

optional or via css

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

{{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

[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]

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

[link to the image.jpg]

Plugin

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

%%(text-align: right) text %%

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

optional or via css

N/A

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text

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

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* list
or
- list

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2

* List
** list
*** list

* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1

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

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# list

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2

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

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

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

Plugin

Term:<def>
def

;term:definition

; term
: definition

:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description

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

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