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srcML (source M L) is a document-oriented XML representation of source code. It was created in a collaborative effort between Michael L. Collard and Jonathan I. Maletic. The abbreviation, srcML, is short for Source Markup Language. srcML wraps source code (text) with information from the Abstract Syntax Tree or AST (tags) into a single XML document. All original text is preserved so that the original source code document can be recreated from the srcML markup. The only exception is the possibility of newline normalization.
The purpose of srcML is to provide full access to the source code at the lexical, documentary, structural, and syntactic levels. The format also provides easy support for fact-extraction and transformation. It is supported by the srcML toolkit maintained on the SDML website and has been shown to perform scalable, lightweight fact-extraction and transformation.