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Set a MIME Body from XML

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromXml method, which sets the body as XML, changes the media type to text/xml, and selects an appropriate transfer encoding. The only argument is the XML text.

Background: This produces an XML-typed part, common in machine-to-machine messaging — SOAP, AS2/EDI payloads, structured data attachments. Marking the content text/xml lets the receiver route and parse it correctly, and Chilkat picks a transfer encoding that preserves the XML across the transport.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromXml method, which sets the body as XML and changes the media
#  type to text/xml.  The only argument is the XML text.

mime = chilkat.CkMime()

xml = "<note><to>Bob</to><from>Alice</from><body>Hello</body></note>"
success = mime.SetBodyFromXml(xml)
if (success == False):
    print(mime.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Content-Type: " + mime.contentType())