We must edit maven-xdoc.dtd in the ${plugin.resources}/dtd directory but never maven-xdoc-${currentRelease}.dtd in src/dtd. Every time a new version of the plugin is released, we copy ${plugin.resources}/dtd/maven-xdoc.dtd into src/dtd/maven-xdoc-${currentRelease}.dtd. We store maven-xdoc-${currentRelease}.dtd in the SCM to be able to re-publish them if necessary.