diff --git a/Stream_support/doc/Stream_support/IOstream.txt b/Stream_support/doc/Stream_support/IOstream.txt
index fb6e4c16b59..d651f21ac55 100644
--- a/Stream_support/doc/Stream_support/IOstream.txt
+++ b/Stream_support/doc/Stream_support/IOstream.txt
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ in those WKT types, namely:
\section IOstreamXML Reading Adhoc XML
In case you have to read data in a simple xml file with a simple structure, without existing I/O libraries
-the `boost::property_tree` comes in handy.
+the `boost::property_tree` comes in handy.
The following small example shows how to parse a file
looking like this: