Visual FoxPro

Convert MIME to XML

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetXml method, which converts the MIME tree to Chilkat's XML representation and returns it as a string. It takes no arguments. Header names become element names, structured header parameters become attributes, and duplicate headers become repeated elements.

Tip: Code to parse the returned XML can be generated at Chilkat Tools.

Background: Turning a MIME tree into XML exposes its structure in a form that ordinary XML tools can query and transform — useful for inspection, debugging, or feeding a message into an XML-based pipeline. It is the inverse of LoadXml, so a message can be round-tripped through XML. For a quick human-readable outline rather than a full representation, see GetStructure.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMime
LOCAL lcXml

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the Mime.GetXml method, which converts the MIME tree to Chilkat's XML
*  representation and returns it as a string.  It takes no arguments.

loMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.Mime')

lnSuccess = loMime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Header names become XML element names and structured header parameters become XML attributes.
lcXml = loMime.GetXml()
IF (loMime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcXml

RELEASE loMime