If you do not wish to generate the HTML documentation, use the nohtml parameter. This is useful in combination with the outputFile parameter to generate only the XML representation of the documentation.
<project> ... <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>net.sf.jfxdplugin</groupId> <artifactId>maven-javafxdoc-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <configuration> <nohtml>true</nohtml> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> ... </reporting> ... </project>