XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. DokuWiki 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]]
[[a link|with title]]

[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]

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

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

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

[http://example.org The title]

[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]

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

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

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

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

h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading

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

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

**bold**

'''bold'''

*bold*

**bold**

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

//Italics//

''italic''

_italics_

//italics//

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

__underline__

<u>underlined</u>

+underline+

__underlined__

<u>underlined</u>

##monospace##

<tt>monospace</tt>

{{monospace}}

''monospace''

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

--Strike--

<s>strikethrough</s>

-strikethrough-

<del>strikethrough</del>

<strike>striked through</strike>

^^superscript^^

<sup>superscript</sup>

^superscript^

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>above</sup>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

~subscript~

<sub>subscript</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

[[Image:wiki.png]]

{{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

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

<center>Centered</center>

Plugin

<?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

: indented line

N/A

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

* List
** list
*** list

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

* one
** one-two
* two
* three

* 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 1.2
# Item 2

# one
## one-two
# two
# three

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# list

; term
: definition

; term : definition

Plugin

Term:<def>
def

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