On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > 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/
Actually this module only support parsing mediawiki syntax, not serializing it. So mediawiki -> xwiki is easy but there is nothing well tested right now for xwiki -> mediawiki. > > 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] > -- Thomas Mortagne
