Looking for lightweight, textbased portal framework.

Previously I have used DotNetNuke for a few sites; not because I needed CMS, but it gave me a modern professional "portal look", it was easy to get site navigation right, and I could write cv.mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com/cv.

Though I found it quite heavy. It was difficult to install, esp on the host, and because content where sitting in the database instead of in text files, I could not compare versions, put files in source control or sync my local version with the hosted public version.

I think there should be some easier way. The more "static content" should sit in text files, and if you have structures content like photo-albums or link collections, it should sit in XML elements rather than relational database tables. (Tools like XML-Spy can be customized to work with different XML structures)....

To sum up I am looking for:

1. A framework that let me assemble content/"portlets", into a site/"portal" with menus etc, and preferably some way to administrate link targets.
2. The state of the site should sit in text-files (Except more dynamic content)
3. Collections of open source "XML Modules".
4. There should be some way to manage link targets.

Any hints? Perhaps I just google with the wrong terms?

Thanks
Olav

I have moved this post up to top level
(Reformulation of a previous post)
Looking for tools/frameworks to help me make nice relatively static web-sites.........
Seems the fundamental choice is between coding HTML/CSS/JavaScript in Dreamveaver, and CMS?
Though CMS seems a bit of an overkill to me. There is a heavy DB, and I don't really need the CMS (in the beginning)
I just want something that can:
1. Generate nice menu's.
2. Tie content together.
3. Administrate links.
Any hints for what to look at, where to look or what to Google would be appreciated.
(I am thinking a bit on phpCMS, since there is no database)
Thanks
Olav