Lua

Load MIME from XML

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.LoadXml method, which reconstructs a MIME tree from Chilkat's MIME XML. The only argument is the XML string.

Background: Chilkat can represent a MIME tree as XML — headers as elements, parameters as attributes — which is convenient for inspecting or editing structure with XML tools. This is the inverse of GetXml: it rebuilds the full MIME object from that representation. Invalid XML leaves the current object unchanged.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the Mime.LoadXml method, which reconstructs a MIME tree from Chilkat's MIME XML.
-- The only argument is the XML string.

local mime = chilkat.Mime.new()

-- Chilkat MIME XML (as produced by GetXml).
local xmlText = "<mime><contentType>text/plain</contentType><body>Hello.</body></mime>"

local success = mime:load_xml(xmlText)
if not success then
    print(mime.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Content-Type: " .. mime.content_type)