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Well, (sigh) sticking by your stated parameters, I'd say Ektron is probably the best product I know of.
http://www.ektron.com/
It's not great, but it's better than a lot of other crappy Windows-Instant-Intranet products, and it costs less than many of them.

Nice place to work, by the way. "We'd like it free, but if you suggest using any of the best tools available for the job, free or otherwise, we're going to give you a faceful of vitriolic blowback, mmmkay? We know what kind of problems these 'free software' products cause with all their stability and interoperability. Just asking for trouble if you start messing around with that stuff. Hey, you know, this free software stuff is all just a paradigm shift anyway, it would be just great if you could spend some time trying to find someone willing to pay us to use their software, and if I could manage it from my cellphone that would be great. Mmmmkay?"

A WYSIWYG with XHTML? Show me one without presentational controls and I'll listen.

Well, I've used ewebeditpro, and it has the ability to enable only the markup that you are looking for. That means that you can disable the bold button. In fact to can disable any button you want. You can create new buttons. That allows the guy who's specifying the format to configure the editor, and once again all is well with the world. This is of course the only one that I'm familiar with, but I'm sure that any person marginally familliar with google could probably find a few others with the features that you speak of.

I'm not saying XHTML is the only solution. I'm sure docbook will work perfectly fine, but xhtml will as well.

I would choose DocBook XML over XHTML 1.x any day of the week and on holidays.

Talk about boring holidays

Try Ektron's eWebEditPro product. We use it as part of a recently completed Vignette installation to allow clueless business users to enter text to templated web pages. It's a decent WYSIWYG editor (bolding, italics, H1-6, etc.) and it lets those few that know HTML switch to the source to edit directly. It's been a screaming success so far. Only problem - not open souce, but the license is reasonable (I think it cost a few hundred bucks).

This is a multi-platform, customizable, programmable product. I don't know how much do they charge for it, but it looks like a good product for your purposes.

You can find the product page at http://www.ektron.com/

Back in the old, old (minicomputer) days you weren't charged for bug fixes, but there was a compulsory 15% per year charge for "maintentance." Some people still do that.

Ektron's eWebEditPro is a popular add-on to Content Management systems for WYSIWYG HTML editing. It has a few really nice features, such as the ability to create well-formed XML (including XHTML). Works in IE and NS, and Ektron has done a good job of making it easy for Webmasters and System Integrators to include it in their apps. PDF data sheet is here.

Ektron's eWebEditPro is a popular add-on to Content Management systems for WYSIWYG HTML editing. It has a few really nice features, such as the ability to create well-formed XML (including XHTML). Works in IE and NS, and Ektron has done a good job of making it easy for Webmasters and System Integrators to include it in their apps. PDF data sheet is here.

Ektron's eWebEditPro is a popular add-on to Content Management systems for WYSIWYG HTML editing. It has a few really nice features, such as the ability to create well-formed XML (including XHTML). Works in IE and NS, and Ektron has done a good job of making it easy for Webmasters and System Integrators to include it in their apps. PDF data sheet is here.