diff --git a/html2xdoc/project.xml b/html2xdoc/project.xml
index 43866ba7..05906108 100644
--- a/html2xdoc/project.xml
+++ b/html2xdoc/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-html2xdoc-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Html2XDoc Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.3</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.4-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <gumpRepositoryId>jakarta</gumpRepositoryId>
   <description>Creates XDoc documentation from normal HTML documentation.</description>
   <shortDescription>HTML to xdoc transformer</shortDescription>
diff --git a/html2xdoc/src/plugin-test/maven.xml b/html2xdoc/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
index 9e22b77d..c09ba8a0 100644
--- a/html2xdoc/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
+++ b/html2xdoc/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
  -->
 <project xmlns:util="jelly:util"
+         xmlns:assert="assert"
          xmlns:j="jelly:core">
          
   <goal name="testPlugin" prereqs="clean,test-html2xdoc,test-html2xdoc-site">
@@ -23,19 +24,11 @@
   
   <goal name="test-html2xdoc">
     <attainGoal name="html2xdoc"/>
-    <j:set var="expectedFile" value="${maven.gen.docs}/h1h2.xml"/>
-    <util:file var="file" name="${expectedFile}" />
-    <j:if test="${!(file.exists())}">
-      <fail>${expectedFile} not generated</fail>
-    </j:if>
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.gen.docs}/h1h2.xml"/>
   </goal>
   
   <goal name="test-html2xdoc-site">
     <attainGoal name="site"/>
-    <j:set var="expectedFile" value="${maven.docs.dest}/h1h2.html"/>
-    <util:file var="file" name="${expectedFile}" />
-    <j:if test="${!(file.exists())}">
-      <fail>${expectedFile} not generated</fail>
-    </j:if>
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.docs.dest}/h1h2.html"/>
   </goal>
 </project>
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diff --git a/html2xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml b/html2xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
index c82da63c..8991780e 100644
--- a/html2xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/html2xdoc/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
     <author email="dion@multitask.com.au">dIon Gillard</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.4-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">Use assert taglib in plugin tests</action>
+    </release>
     <release version="1.3" date="2004-05-15">
       <action dev="dion" type="fix">Fix issues with DOM classes and jdk1.3</action>
     </release>
