XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PhpWiki

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)

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

((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

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

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

[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]

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

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

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

-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

**bold**

**bold**

__bold__

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

//Italics//

//italics//

''italic''

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

__underline__

__underlined__

===underline===

<u>underlined</u>

##monospace##

''monospace''

-+monospace+-

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

--Strike--

<del>strikethrough</del>

--strike--

<strike>striked through</strike>

^^superscript^^

<sup>superscript</sup>

{SUP()}text{SUP}

<sup>above</sup>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

{SUB()}text{SUB}

<sub>below</sub>

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

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

{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.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

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

Plugin

::centered text::

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

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

N/A

leading spaces, if activated.

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

* List
** list
*** list

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2

* list
or
- list

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

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2

# list

; term
: definition

Plugin

;term:definition

Term:<def>
def

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