An XML Interchange Format for Wiki Creole 1.0

Wikis have become an important application on the web and in the enterprise, yet there are no interoperability standards between different wiki engines. This paper presents the first complete XML representation format of Wiki Creole 1.0. Wiki Creole is a community standard for wiki markup, the language used to write wiki pages. This report presents the complete XML representation format using a validating XML schema. In addition this paper presents XSLT definitions for transforming the XML representations to XHTML on the one hand and for transforming the XML representations to Wiki Creole markup on the other hand. The work shows how using XML technologies the authors can make wiki interchange, wiki upgrading, and wiki conversion independent from a specific wiki engine implementation.