diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
index c35c115d025..f914e7c8527 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.1</version>
+        <version>${xml.maven.version}</version>
         <executions>
           <!-- xml-maven-plugin modifies each exemplar project's pom.xml file to convert to standalone project. -->
           <execution>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d9ef8868978..bf5a3bda613 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -939,41 +939,6 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <!-- parent-module only plugins -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0</version>
-        <inherited>false</inherited>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <!-- Run the hbase-default.xml through a stylesheet so can show it in doc-->
-            <goals>
-              <goal>transform</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <phase>pre-site</phase>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-        <configuration>
-          <transformationSets>
-            <!-- For asciidoc -->
-            <transformationSet>
-              <!--Reaching up and over into common sub-module for hbase-default.xml-->
-              <dir>${basedir}/hbase-common/src/main/resources/</dir>
-              <includes>
-                <include>hbase-default.xml</include>
-              </includes>
-              <stylesheet>${basedir}/src/main/xslt/configuration_to_asciidoc_chapter.xsl</stylesheet>
-              <fileMappers>
-                <fileMapper implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.RegExpFileMapper">
-                  <pattern>^(.*)\.xml$</pattern>
-                  <replacement>$1.adoc</replacement>
-                </fileMapper>
-              </fileMappers>
-              <outputDir>${basedir}/target/asciidoc</outputDir>
-            </transformationSet>
-          </transformationSets>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
       <!-- Special configuration for findbugs just in the parent so
       the filter file location can be more general (see definition in pluginManagement) -->
       <plugin>
@@ -1108,83 +1073,6 @@
           <outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-      <!-- For AsciiDoc docs building -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
-        <artifactId>asciidoctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${asciidoctor.plugin.version}</version>
-        <inherited>false</inherited>
-        <dependencies>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
-            <artifactId>asciidoctorj-pdf</artifactId>
-            <version>1.5.0-alpha.11</version>
-          </dependency>
-        </dependencies>
-        <configuration>
-          <outputDirectory>target/site</outputDirectory>
-          <doctype>book</doctype>
-          <imagesDir>images</imagesDir>
-          <sourceHighlighter>coderay</sourceHighlighter>
-          <attributes>
-            <docVersion>${project.version}</docVersion>
-            <sourcedir>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</sourcedir>
-            <pdfmarks/>
-          </attributes>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>output-html</id>
-            <phase>site</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <attributes>
-                <stylesheet>hbase.css</stylesheet>
-              </attributes>
-              <backend>html5</backend>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-          <execution>
-            <id>output-pdf</id>
-            <phase>site</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <backend>pdf</backend>
-              <attributes>
-                <pagenums/>
-                <toc/>
-                <idprefix/>
-                <idseparator>-</idseparator>
-              </attributes>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${maven.antrun.version}</version>
-        <inherited>false</inherited>
-        <!-- Rename the book.pdf generated by asciidoctor -->
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>rename-pdf</id>
-            <phase>post-site</phase>
-            <configuration>
-              <target name="rename file">
-                <move file="${project.basedir}/target/site/book.pdf" tofile="${project.basedir}/target/site/apache_hbase_reference_guide.pdf" />
-                <move file="${project.basedir}/target/site/book.pdfmarks" tofile="${project.basedir}/target/site/apache_hbase_reference_guide.pdfmarks" />
-              </target>
-            </configuration>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>run</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>buildnumber-maven-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -1300,10 +1188,10 @@
       When updating checkstyle.version, please make the same change in `.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml`
     -->
     <checkstyle.version>6.18</checkstyle.version>
-    <asciidoctor.plugin.version>1.5.3</asciidoctor.plugin.version>
     <plexus.errorprone.javac.version>2.8.2</plexus.errorprone.javac.version>
     <spotbugs.version>3.1.0-RC1</spotbugs.version>
     <maven.enforcer.version>3.0.0-M1</maven.enforcer.version>
+    <xml.maven.version>1.0.1</xml.maven.version>
     <!-- General Packaging -->
     <package.prefix>/usr</package.prefix>
     <package.conf.dir>/etc/hbase</package.conf.dir>