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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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integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Email
string ls_XmlStr

//  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).

loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Email
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Email.Subject = "GetXml example"
loo_Email.From = "alice@example.com"
loo_Email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
loo_Email.Body = "Hello!"

//  Convert the email to Chilkat's XML representation.
ls_XmlStr = loo_Email.GetXml()
Write-Debug ls_XmlStr


destroy loo_Email