diff --git a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
index d1fffd2d3d59b7a55f0d5c471d605a35fd19e18e..19ec1caa47b77938c3ea597490ade2dc10cda865 100644
--- a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
+++ b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ The Trapezoid is also aliased to Trd2.
 Trd1(e.x1(), e.x2(), e.y1(), e.y2(), e.z(0));
 \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="Trd1" x1="value" x2="value" y1="value" y2="value" z="value"/>
 \end{minted}