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Save an Email to a Chilkat XML File

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveXml method, which converts the email object to Chilkat's XML representation and saves it to a file. It can later be reloaded with LoadXml. This example builds a message and saves it as XML.

Background: This XML format is an alternative to the standard .eml (MIME) format for persisting an email. Note that .eml also preserves Chilkat's CKX- metadata headers (which are always removed before an email is sent), so it captures the same information. Because .eml is universal and interoperable, Chilkat recommends using SaveEml / LoadEml over the XML format — even within Chilkat-based software.

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React Native
import { Email } from '@chilkat/react-native'

function chilkatExample() {
  // Demonstrates the SaveXml method, which converts the email object to Chilkat's XML
  // representation and saves it to a file.  It can later be reloaded with LoadXml.

  const email = new Email();
  email.subject = 'Save as XML';
  email.from = 'alice@example.com';
  email.addTo('Bob', 'bob@example.com');
  email.body = 'Hello!';

  // Save the email to a Chilkat XML file.
  try {
    email.saveXml('qa_output/email.xml');
  } catch {
    console.log(email.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  console.log('Saved to email.xml.');

  // Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
  // relative to the current working directory of the running application.
}