26 Dec
2016
26 Dec
'16
8:37 p.m.
Hi,
On 26 Dec 2016, at 19:55, novnovice
<novnovice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like input on which input syntax might be best to use. I am not
habituated to any syntax, only light exposure to mediawiki and wikis in
general. I would value a syntax which is simple and terse.
xwiki has gone out of it's way to support many input syntaxes. The safe
choice for portability (of skillset and pages) would seem to be mediawiki.
But I might guess that the xwiki syntax was developed in order to better
utilize the special features of xwiki, and so in xwiki, xwiki syntax would
have to be the best and the default syntax.
Yes you’re right. We’ve developed the XWiki syntax to be the most complete syntax and so
that it works well with WYSIWYG, i.e. that it’s easy to convert from/to (X)HTML.
I’d recommend that you user the XWiki syntax if you can (XWiki Syntax 2.1 to be precise).
If one chooses xwiki syntax, is there a way to
convert/export to mediawiki
syntax if needed?
Yes that’s possible, see
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/MediaWiki/MediaWiki+XM…
You can also convert page by page, see
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HChoosingaSyn… and
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HConvertingbe…
Thanks
-Vincent
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