We've rejected the desktop authoring tools and the "mom & pop" grade web based tools because we need templating and complex relationships between editorial objects.The basic requirement for templating can be fulfilled by just about any technology that can perform "paint by numbers" variable substitution and component includes.
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [ TITLE GOES HERE ] </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> [ HEADER COMPONENT GOES HERE ] [ CONTENT GOES HERE ] [ FOOTER COMPONENT GOES HERE ] </BODY> </HTML>For every component system out there, someone has built their own templating system with it. SSI, PHP, ASP, JSP, and so on. All are plausible candidates for a templating system (though we decided earlier that we don't want stupid components, so we rejected SSI's).