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Visual Basic 6.0

Load an Email from a Chilkat XML String

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromXmlText method, which loads an email from a Chilkat XML string (as produced by GetXml). On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email to XML, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This loads Chilkat's XML email representation from a string — the in-memory counterpart to LoadXml. The XML format is an alternative to standard MIME, but for most purposes the MIME form (SetFromMimeText / GetMime) is preferred: it 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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the SetFromXmlText method, which loads an email from a Chilkat XML string.
'  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

'  Build a source email and serialize it to Chilkat XML.
Dim source As New ChilkatEmail
source.Subject = "Source message"
source.From = "alice@example.com"
source.Body = "Hello!"
Dim xmlText As String
xmlText = source.GetXml()

'  Load a new email object from the XML string.
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
success = email.SetFromXmlText(xmlText)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Loaded subject: " & email.Subject