I agree. I manage a site using a hand-built set of 'XHTML' templates & documents, XSLT, and php scripts. Treating the HTML documents as the data source has prov

I agree. I manage a site using a hand-built set of 'XHTML' templates & documents, XSLT, and php scripts. Treating the HTML documents as the data source has proven to work very nicely in practise, and I would use the same approach in future, although it definitely needs finessing. (I say 'XHTML' because it's just HTML that happens to be XML, rather than actually being served as XHTML. But having it in XML obviously makes things a lot easier.)