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Convert an Email to Chilkat XML

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetXml method, which converts the email object to an XML document in memory. The XML is Chilkat's own email-object representation — it is not MIME and not a standardized interchange format. This example builds a message and prints its XML.

Background: This XML form is a Chilkat-specific way to serialize an Email object that can be reloaded with LoadXml / LoadXmlString. Because it is not standard MIME, other mail software cannot read it. In practice the standard .eml format (GetMime / SaveEml) is preferred even within Chilkat-based software: .eml is interoperable and also preserves Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (which are always removed before an email is sent), so the XML format offers no metadata advantage.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Handle hoEmail
    Boolean iSuccess
    String sXmlStr

    //  Demonstrates the GetXml method, which converts the email object to an XML document in
    //  memory.  The XML is Chilkat's email-object representation (not MIME and not a
    //  standardized interchange format).

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatEmail)) To hoEmail
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoEmail))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoEmail
    End
    Set ComSubject Of hoEmail To "GetXml example"
    Set ComFrom Of hoEmail To "alice@example.com"
    Get ComAddTo Of hoEmail "Bob" "bob@example.com" To iSuccess
    Set ComBody Of hoEmail To "Hello!"

    //  Convert the email to Chilkat's XML representation.
    Get ComGetXml Of hoEmail To sXmlStr
    Showln sXmlStr


End_Procedure