Comments on: Powerful Wiki Engine for Eclipse http://blog.pdark.de/2009/09/01/powerful-wiki-engine-for-eclipse/ Opinions and views about computers, writing SciFi and everything else. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: digulla http://blog.pdark.de/2009/09/01/powerful-wiki-engine-for-eclipse/#comment-217 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:35:51 +0000 http://blog.pdark.de/?p=689#comment-217 Thanks for the info. I’ll post a follow up after giving both a whirl.

]]> By: Peter Friese http://blog.pdark.de/2009/09/01/powerful-wiki-engine-for-eclipse/#comment-216 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:33:37 +0000 http://blog.pdark.de/?p=689#comment-216 We considered writing a Wiki-like documentation platform using Xtext when we needed something decent to document Xtext itself.

We eventually decided not to invent yet another wiki, but instead use WikiText. Main reasons were:
(a) WikiText is readily available and had 95% of the features we needed.
(b) WikiText is very flexible with respect to both input (you can choose among a number of well-known Wiki dialectsor even write your own) and output (HTML, Eclipse Help, DocBook).
(c) More people know WikiText and the Wiki dialects that it supports than any homegrown Wiki dialect we’d have come up with.

We filled the 5% gap by implementing some additional keywords that basically allow us to link into CVS. So far, we didn’t regret choosing WikiText.

However, you should be able to write a Wiki engine with Xtext. Go ahead and let us know how you make progress!

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