What is a good Publishing tool / mechanism

Dear Folks,
After playing a bit with XML forms, I was trying to see is there any publishing tool / mechanism other than XML forms. Can you please share some pros and cons on using XML forms? If someone is using any third party publishing please share some info.
Thanks a lot.
Deepak

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