I have been using surrealcms on a couple of sites and the problem I run into is that they don't like any other charset than utf-8, which is not the default for XX5. I've been trying to incorporate Pulse Content Manager and I think it would be very good for this type of thing, the problem I'm encountering is how to work in the PHP file includes, they don't seem to work with the placeholder mechanism. I'll keep trying and let you know what happens.