diff --git a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
index 7b56ab13ce312a677723bf95b59ae034afb46fe0..e6aac00e3b8c3e2abb6542d4c73fea9a8dbe1b34 100644
--- a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
+++ b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ Defaults are: \texttt{rmin=0},  \texttt{startphi=$\pi$},  \texttt{deltaphi=$2\ti
 Sphere(e.rmin(), e.rmax(), e.starttheta(), e.deltatheta(), 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="Sphere" rmin="value" rmax="value"
                 starttheta="value" deltatheta="value" startphi="value" deltaphi="value"/>
 \end{minted}