XWiki - XWiki Syntax Guide 

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XWiki Syntax Guide 
last modified by Roelof Zwaan
on 2021/10/25 19:49

Table of Contents
XWiki Syntax 2.1: Introduction

  
XWiki Syntax 2.1 » General » Introduction
XWiki Syntax 2.1: Introduction
•	General
•	Introduction
•	General Remarks
•	Other Syntaxes
•	Editing
•	Paragraphs
•	Headings
•	Text Formatting
•	Horizontal Line
•	Lists
•	Definition Lists
•	New Line/Line Breaks
•	Links
•	Tables
•	Images
•	Advanced
•	Verbatim
•	Quotations
•	Groups
•	Escapes
•	Parameters
•	Programming
•	Macros
•	HTML
•	Scripts

2.1 Introduction
The XWiki Syntax 2.0 has proven to be quite useful and robust in general; however since its introduction a few shortcomings have been found. The corresponding improvements have been consolidated in XWiki Syntax 2.1. Some new features of this syntax are:
•	Homogenize the link and image syntax for better clarity, consistency and extensibility.
•	Added ability to display icons, to embed images via the Data URI scheme, to link to files using the UNC notation and to link to relative URLs.
Since XWiki Syntax 2.1 is based on XWiki Syntax 2.0 all syntax from XWiki Syntax 2.0 is valid unless the 2.1 specifications suggest differently.
In addition to these XWiki-specific syntaxes we've also changed our underlying rendering engine in XWiki Enterprise version 1.7 (was Radeox previously) in favor of our own engine which is superset wrapper around Wikimodel and Doxia (and possibly others in the future).  This has allowed us to provide other syntaxes in the wiki: MediaWiki, Confluence, JSPWiki, Creole, TWiki and more.