diff --git a/Maven-Overlay-Project-How-To.md b/Maven-Overlay-Project-How-To.md
index 839cdc5..19aa172 100644
--- a/Maven-Overlay-Project-How-To.md
+++ b/Maven-Overlay-Project-How-To.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ You can find an example of the results of this guide [here](https://github.com/m
 1. Create a directory for the top level: `mkdir example-openid-connect-overlay`
 2. Create `example-openid-connect-overlay/pom.xml`
 
-```
+```xml
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ This creates a project with one sub module, `my-openid-connect` which will hold
 
 4. Create `example-openid-connect-overlay/my-openid-connect/pom.xml`
 
-```
+```xml
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>