[xwiki-users] Converting from XWiki to TWiki

[Marc Lijour]

Sorry to hear that as well.
I met a lot of people which thanked me after I introduced them to XWiki. And 
if I did not contribute more than that it is not because of a lack of 
interest -there are so many features and XWiki is packed with great 
technology... 

I'd like to express my thanks to the XWiki team and user community. Keep the 
great work!

On August 29, 2006 12:59 pm, Paul Dlug wrote:
> We just completed a conversion from XWiki to TWiki because of the numerous
> limitations of XWiki (really awful to understand permissions system, slow
> pace of development, lack of plugins, horrid look and feel, etc.). We
> initially tried to convert the syntax to TWiki using perl with
> Parse::RecDescent. Since the grammar is rather unstructured and
> regex/exception based this isn't an easy thing to do. We were successfully
> in hacking up a version of XWiki/Radeox that outputs the XWIki syntax as
> TWiki syntax. Since this uses the native structures inside the original
> java code the conversion is much cleaner.
>
> If anyone else is migrating from XWiki to TWiki let me know if you'd like
> the code to batch convert the whole wiki at once. I'm happy to save others
> the pain of doing this themselves.
>
> As an aside, I am dismayed at the slow progress of XWiki in the time we
> have been using it (over a year and a half). I was also quite appalled when
> I started digging into the code to this, it's messy, undocumented, and rife
> with duplicate logic.