diff --git a/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml b/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml
index 29326e18..12331675 100644
--- a/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/xdoc/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -9,12 +9,16 @@
   <body>
     <section name="Maven XDoc Plug-in">
       <p>
-        This plug-in provides the primary mechanism that is used to produce
-        the Maven documentation.
+        The Xdoc plugin is the primary mechanism used to produce the
+        Maven-generated documentation as well as any user supplied
+        "xdocs".  An xdoc is an XML document conforming to a small and
+        simple set of tags.  Maven uses this format extensively.  All
+        Maven-generated reports are first generated as an xdoc, which
+        is then transformed to HTML via this plugin.
       </p>
       <p>
-      The documentation is mainly in <code>Anakia</code> format. More information
-      along with samples, can be found at:
+      The documentation is mainly in <code>Anakia</code> format. More
+      information along with samples, can be found at:
       <ul>
         <li>
           <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site-tags.html">the tags defined</a>
@@ -25,20 +29,26 @@
       </ul>
       </p>
       <p>
-        There is addition to the anakia format. You can use the <code>footer</code> tag for including
-        text or images just below the navigation menu and above the copyright notice. 
-        This tag is only usefull in the navigation.xml file.<br/>
-        Here is an example : <br/>
-        <source><![CDATA[  
+        There are a few additions to the anakia format. You can use the
+        <code>footer</code> tag for including text or images just below
+        the navigation menu and above the copyright notice.  This tag is
+        only usefull in the navigation.xml file and should be placed
+        within the body element.  For example:
+      </p>
+      <source><![CDATA[  
    <!-- footer will be placed above the (c) -->
    <footer>
     <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctecl">
       <IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=72748" border="0" alt="sf logo"/>
     </A>
    </footer>
-               ]]></source>
-              <br/>
-               The footer should be placed within the body element.
+      ]]></source>
+      <p>
+        In addition to xdocs, users may wish to include other types of
+        files such as images, their own HTML files, PDFs, etc.  By
+        default, this plugin will copy all files located in the
+        <code>maven.docs.src</code> directory (<code>xdocs</code> by
+        default) to the final generated site.
       </p>
     </section>
  </body>