diff --git a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
index 19ec1caa47b77938c3ea597490ade2dc10cda865..5d12a8288c45da7c008004c33992e38ae1efee4c 100644
--- a/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
+++ b/doc/usermanuals/DD4hep/chapters/basics.tex
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ Defaults are: \texttt{rmin=0}.
 Hyperboloid(e.rmin(0), e.inner_stereo(), e.rmax(), e.outer_stereo, 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="Hyperboloid" rmin="value" inner_stereo="value" rmax="value" outer_stereo=="value" dz="value"/>
 \end{minted}