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Any ideas for a nice parser with an easy to use API that is configurable? I’m looking to feed it data such as http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/api.php?format=xml&action=parse&prop=wikitext&page=San%20Francisco, choose sections of data I want, and output custom html for each unique type of element? Java would be preferred, but if there’s a PHP/js solution that is compatible with most (99%+) wikitext, that would be okay as well.
Sweble is probably the best Java parser of wikitext. It claims to be 100% compliant with wikitext, but I seriously doubt that. It parses wikitext into an abstract syntax tree that you then have to do something with (like convert it to HTML).
There is a page on mediawiki.org that lists wikitext parsers in various programming languages. I don’t think any of them do 99+% of wikitext though. In general parsing wikitext is a really complex problem. Wikitext isn’t even formally defined anywhere outside of the MediaWiki parser itself.