XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Instiki vs. Hatta vs. Foswiki

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)

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

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

[[link]]
[[link|label]]

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

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

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

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

http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]

External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]

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

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

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

= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====

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

**bold**

__bold__

**bold**

**bold**

*bold*

//Italics//

''italics''

_italic_, *italic*

//italic//

_italic_

__underline__

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

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

n/a

<u>underline</u>

##monospace##

{{monospace}}

`monospace`

{{{verbatim}}}

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

--Strike--

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

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

n/a

<strike>strikethrough</strike>

^^superscript^^

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

<sup>superscript</sup>

n/a

<sup>superscript</sup>

,,subscript,,

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

<sub>subscript</sub>

n/a

<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

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

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

{{image}}
{{image|alt}}

%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%

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

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

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

n/a

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

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

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

> blockquote

n/a

<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

* List
** list
*** list

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2

* list
** sublist

* 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 2

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

n/a

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

; term
: definition

;term:definition

term
: definition

n/a

$ Term: Definition

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