You might want to poke around in the Doxia code, to see what a non-Cocoon-based, pluggable input/output module doc system might look like:
http://maven.apache.org/doxia/index.html My 2c is that any doc system built around hand-editing XML is going to be a niche player. Cocoon is what makes Forrest a really cool niche player, but ultimately the future is with CMSs. I guess that's what the Outerthought people concluded too. --Jeff