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Examine the Contents of a .p7m by Converting to XML

Examines the contents of a .p7m signature by converting it to XML.

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

local asn = chilkat.Asn.new()

local success = asn:load_binary_file("qa_data/p7m/a.p7m")
if not success then
    print(asn.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Convert to XML.
local strXml = asn:asn_to_xml()

-- The XML returned by AsnToXml will be compact.
-- To get the XML indented in human-readable form, load
-- into the Chilkat XML object and emit..
local xml = chilkat.Xml.new()
xml:load_xml(strXml)

print(xml:get_xml())
xml:save_xml("qa_output/a.xml")

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-- Also see Chilkat's online tool to examine a .p7m and generate code to duplicate the .p7m
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