We study the local discrepancy of a symmetrized version of the well-known van der Corput sequence and of modified two-dimensional Hammersley point sets in arbitrary base b. We give upper bounds on the norm of the local discrepancy in Besov spaces of dominating mixed smoothness S r p,q B([0, 1) s ), which will also give us bounds on the L p -discrepancy. Our sequence and point sets will achieve the known optimal order for the L p -and S r p,q B-discrepancy. The results in this paper generalize several previous results on L p -and S r p,q B-discrepancy estimates and provide a sharp upper bound on the S r p,q B-discrepancy of one-dimensional sequences for r > 0. We will use the b-adic Haar function system in the proofs.