diff --git a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
index 4210d15333..be80621b07 100644
--- a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
+++ b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@
with the inherit directive, leaving the recipe
to describe just the things that are specific to the software to be
built.
- A base
+ A base
class exists that is implicitly inherited by all recipes and provides
the functionality that most typical recipes need.