XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki

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]]

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

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

[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]

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

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

[http://example.org The title]

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

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

http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]

http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]

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

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

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

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

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

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

**bold**

'''bold'''

**bold**

*bold*

'''bold'''

*bold*

//Italics//

''italic''

//italics//

_italics_

''italic''

_italic_

__underline__

<u>underlined</u>

__underlined__

+underline+

{+underlined+}

<u>underline</u>

##monospace##

<tt>monospace</tt>

''monospace''

{{monospace}}

@@monospace@@

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

--Strike--

<s>strikethrough</s>

<del>strikethrough</del>

-strikethrough-

{-strikethrough-}

<strike>strikethrough</strike>

^^superscript^^

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>superscript</sup>

^superscript^

'^superscript^'

<sup>superscript</sup>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>subscript</sub>

~subscript~

'_subscript_'

<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

[[Image:wiki.png]]

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

https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption

%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png

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

<center>Centered</center>

Plugin

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame

| 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

: indented line

N/A

-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation

<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

* List
** list
*** list

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* one
** one-two
* two
* three

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2

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

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# one
## one-two
# two
# three

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2

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

; term
: definition

; term : definition

Plugin

: term : definition

$ Term: Definition

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