diff --git a/src/site/docbook/reference/common-patterns.xml b/src/site/docbook/reference/common-patterns.xml
index 8e64fb7ff..e121a6fbc 100644
--- a/src/site/docbook/reference/common-patterns.xml
+++ b/src/site/docbook/reference/common-patterns.xml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
     <classname>FlatFileHeaderCallback</classname>) are optional properties of
     the <classname>FlatFileItemWriter</classname>:</para>
 
-    <programlisting language="java">&lt;bean id="itemWriter" class="org.spr...FlatFileItemWriter"&gt;
+    <programlisting language="xml">&lt;bean id="itemWriter" class="org.spr...FlatFileItemWriter"&gt;
     &lt;property name="resource" ref="outputResource" /&gt;
     &lt;property name="lineAggregator" ref="lineAggregator"/&gt;
     <emphasis role="bold">&lt;property name="headerCallback" ref="headerCallback" /&gt;</emphasis>
diff --git a/src/site/docbook/reference/job.xml b/src/site/docbook/reference/job.xml
index 40c4cfa0d..4316853a3 100644
--- a/src/site/docbook/reference/job.xml
+++ b/src/site/docbook/reference/job.xml
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ catch (JobRestartException e) {
       <classname>Job</classname> with two listeners and one
       <classname>Step</classname>, "step1".</para>
 
-      <programlisting language="java"><![CDATA[<job id="baseJob" abstract="true">
+      <programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<job id="baseJob" abstract="true">
     <listeners>
         <listener ref="listenerOne"/>
     <listeners>