Hi,

On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Kamna Jain wrote:

> Hi,
> I was trying to compare XWiki with some of the functionality of  
> MediaWiki.
> One of my concerns about attchements is the security. For example,Do  
> the page access rights in XWiki, apply also to the attachements of  
> that page?
> In mediawiki, there is special page called File list where one can  
> go and see the entire list of files uploaded to the wiki. But, if we  
> want to allow access restrictions to those, this should not be  
> allowed.
> So, does XWiki take care of this issue? Not allowing restricted  
> users from viewing confodential attachemnts at all.

Attachments are linked to pages so if a user doesn't have the right to  
view a page he won't be able to view its attachments.

>  Also, what is the syntax of XWiki and how is it different from  
> Mediawiki if at all it is?

http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax

-Vincent
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