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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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'  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).

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "GetXml example"
email.From = "alice@example.com"
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.Body = "Hello!"

'  Convert the email to Chilkat's XML representation.
Dim xmlStr As String = email.GetXml()
Debug.WriteLine(xmlStr)