Hi, > On 26 Dec 2016, at 19:55, novnovice <novnov...@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+XML/ You can also convert page by page, see http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HChoosingaSyntax and http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/PageEditing#HConvertingbetweenSyntaxes Thanks -Vincent [snip]
