I wrote a basic component that renders data in an HTML tag, which you can pass as an attribute on the component. Ultimately, this will we be much more sophisticated, but I can't even get this working when I put two of the same component on one Visualforce page. The first component renders, but the second appears to be ignored. We're working on a lightweight CMS for Visualforce, so it would not be unrealistic to have multiple instances of the same component rendered multiple "content blocks" into one final page.

COMPONENT:

<apex:component controller="CTRL_COMP_cms_content">
<apex:attribute assignTo="{!wrap}" name="wrap" description="The HTML tag to wrap this component with." type="String" required="false" />

<apex:attribute assignTo="{!text}" name="text" description="The text to put in the tag." type="String" required="false" />

<apex:outputText value="{!output}" escape="false" />
</apex:component>

CONTROLLER:

public class CTRL_COMP_cms_content {

public String wrap {
get {
if(wrap == null) wrap = '';
return wrap;
}
set;
}

public String text {
get {
if(text == null) text = '';
return text;
}
set;
}

public String output {
get {
if(wrap == '') return text;

return '<' + wrap + '>' + text + '</' + wrap + '>';
}
}

public CTRL_COMP_cms_content() {}

}

PAGE WITH COMPONENTS:

<apex:page id="the-page">
<c:cms_content id="text1" text="First Text" wrap="div"></c:cms_content>
<c:cms_content id="text2" text="Second Text" wrap="div"></c:cms_content>
</apex:page>

FINAL RENDERED HTML OUTPUT:

<span id="the-page:text1"><div>First Text</div></span>

<span id="the-page:text2"></span>

The final HTML output includes the results from the first component and renders the <span> for the second component, but the contents of the second component are never rendered.

Help!