XWiki vs. Instiki vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki

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)

[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

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

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

[another site](http://example.com)

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

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

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

#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

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

**bold**

**bold**

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

**bold**

//Italics//

_italic_, *italic*

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

//italics//

__underline__

underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}

<u>underlined</u>

__underlined__

##monospace##

`monospace`

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

''monospace''

--Strike--

<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}

<strike>striked through</strike>

<del>strikethrough</del>

^^superscript^^

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>above</sup>

<sup>superscript</sup>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>below</sub>

<sub>subscript</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

![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]

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

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

p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}

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

Plugin

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A

* List
** list
*** list

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2

* list
or
- list

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

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

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2

# list

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

; term
: definition

term
: definition

Term:<def>
def

Plugin

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