diff --git a/release/xdocs/.cvsignore b/release/xdocs/.cvsignore
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index 00000000..cb6131bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/xdocs/.cvsignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+stylesheets
diff --git a/release/xdocs/changes.xml b/release/xdocs/changes.xml
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index 00000000..7dcf7ea8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/xdocs/changes.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<document>
+  <properties>
+    <title>Changes</title>
+    <author email="dion@apache.org">dIon Gillard</author>
+  </properties>
+  <body>
+    <release version="1.1" date="in CVS">
+      <action dev="dion" type="update">
+        Upgrade to dom4j 1.4, maven 1.0-beta-10
+      </action>
+    </release>
+  </body>  
+</document>
+
diff --git a/release/xdocs/goals.xml b/release/xdocs/goals.xml
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index 00000000..bd3b314d
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+++ b/release/xdocs/goals.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<document>
+  <properties>
+    <title>Maven Release Plug-in Goals</title>
+  </properties>
+  <body>
+    <goals>
+      <goal>
+        <name>convert-snapshots</name>
+        <description>
+        </description>
+      </goal>
+      <goal>
+        <name>convert-snapshots-auto</name>
+        <description>
+        </description>
+      </goal>
+      <goal>
+        <name>increment-snapshot-version</name>
+        <description>
+        </description>
+      </goal>
+      <goal>
+        <name>release</name>
+        <description>
+        </description>
+      </goal>
+      <goal>
+        <name>validate-pom-for-release</name>
+        <description>
+        </description>
+      </goal>
+    </goals>
+  </body>
+</document>
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diff --git a/release/xdocs/index.xml b/release/xdocs/index.xml
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index 00000000..cf7abaf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<document>
+
+  <properties>
+    <title>Maven Release Plug-in</title>
+    <author email="jason@zenplex.com">Jason van Zyl</author>
+  </properties>
+
+  <body>
+    <section name="Maven Release Plug-in">
+      <p>
+        This plug-in provides some basic help with releases.
+      </p>
+    </section>
+ </body>
+</document>
diff --git a/release/xdocs/navigation.xml b/release/xdocs/navigation.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3968e9e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/xdocs/navigation.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<project name="Maven Release Plug-in">
+  <title>Maven Release Plug-in</title>
+  <body>
+    <links>
+      <item href="http://maven.apache.org/" name="Maven">
+      </item>
+    </links>
+    <menu name="Overview">
+      <item href="/goals.html" name="Goals">
+      </item>
+      <item href="/properties.html" name="Properties">
+      </item>
+    </menu>
+  </body>
+</project>
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diff --git a/release/xdocs/properties.xml b/release/xdocs/properties.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e91a406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/xdocs/properties.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<document>
+  <properties>
+    <title>Maven Release Plug-in Properties</title>
+  </properties>
+  <body>
+    <section name="Maven Release Plug-in Settings">
+      <p>There are no settings to customize this plugin</p>
+    </section>
+  </body>
+</document>
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