> On 26 Dec 2016, at 21:19, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote: > > 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.
Yes sorry, my bad, I read too quickly and thought you were asking to convert *from* mediawiki. As Thomas said, we don’t have any easy way to convert back to MediaWiki syntax. Thanks -Vincent > >> 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] >>
