diff --git a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
index 08e201cab399abda5a5fafa7d1b820acfc59008c..0c934e9683d9c09ac299ef37d6bb95e08b8edafe 100644
--- a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
+++ b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ are used if not explicitly stated in the \texttt{XML} element \texttt{e}.
 Tube(e.rmin(0.0), e.rmax(), e.dz(), e.startphi(), e.deltaphi())
 \end{minted}
 The corrsponding XML snippet looks like this:
-\begin{minted}[frame=single,framesep=3pt,breaklines=true,tabsize=2,linenos,fontsize=\small]{c++}
+\begin{minted}[frame=single,framesep=3pt,breaklines=true,tabsize=2,linenos,fontsize=\small]{xml}
   <some_element type="Tube" rmin="value" rmax="value" dz="value" startphi="value" deltaphi="value"/>
 \end{minted}
 where the defaults are \texttt{rmin=0}, \texttt{startphi=0} and \texttt{deltaphi=$2\times\pi$}.