Representation and Generation of XML-based Electronic Mail
Peide Qian · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2006
E-mail is usually encapsulated and transferred in semi-structured MIME format,and stored by different mail user agents in private formats,so e-mails could not be shared between mail user agent and other applications,and the resources could not be fully utilized.This paper proposes a kind of XML representation scheme for email on user agent.XML tags of email are refined in order to facilitate the retrieving and rearrangement of emails.The approach to transform MIME e-mail into XML document is also provided,thus it lays the basic foundation to the subsequent mail operations and the full utilization of mail base.