Hi Michael,

On May 4, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM,  <michael.ott...@emc.com> wrote:
>> We have a small Confluence Wiki that is approaching its user limit. We have 
>> the option of either purchasing additional licenses or moving to XWiki. One 
>> huge advantage of XWiki is that we could vastly increase the number of users 
>> with access to our Wiki even if we did not allow those users write access.
>> 
>> In order to make such a conversion feasible, we would first need to import 
>> our existing Confluence Wiki. In searching around I have found references to 
>> some Google Summer of Code proposals < 
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/ImportExportfromanyotherWiki2010>.
>>  I have been less successful in locating implementations.
> 
> Only mediawiki import has been done during this GSOC.
> 
>> 
>> Is there a (relatively) straightforward way to import my Confluence content 
>> into an XWiki? How might I go about doing this?
> 
> There is no real Confluence importer. So it depends of the number of
> pages you have, if there is not too much pages you can use the built
> in document content converter to convert them one by one in you XWiki
> instance.
> 
> If there is more then you might want to write a script which parse
> whatever you can get from confluence in input and use the rendering
> framework to convert Confluence syntax into XWiki syntax. You can find
> several examples using various technologies to do that for other wikis
> (TWiki, Dokuwiki, ...) but unfortunately not for Confluence (yet ;)).

And here's a code snippet showing you how to do it:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Convert+Confluence+to+XWiki+Syntax

Thanks
-Vincent

> Note that a Java based universal importer/exporter is in progress on
> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/wiki-stream (with only a mediawiki
> importer module right now).
> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Michael Ottati

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