diff --git a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
index 5157d857d86e3b5143dee5e94faa9c828e1bbaa7..37ce84355b25acbb5486f84fc672a280f5125d6e 100644
--- a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
+++ b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ where the defaults are \texttt{rmin=0}.
 EllipticalTube(e.a(),e.b(),e.dz());
 \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="EllipticalTube" dz="value" a="value" b="value"/>
 \end{minted}