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Make an email body into a text file?

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dvkid

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I want to make an AppleScript that takes the body the selected email message and turns it into a text file (XML). The email body will already bare all necessary XML formatting. The script would literally emulate copying the body and pasting it into TextEdit and doing a Save As with extension XML. I could easily build a Script or Automation that takes the clipboard but haven't found a way to capture the body of the selected email.

Anybody know?
 
This AppleScript will grab the content of the 1st selected message into a variable. What you do with it then is up to you

Code: 
tell application "Mail"
	set theSelectedMessages to selection
	set the selectedMessage to item 1 of theSelectedMessages
	set myContent to content of selectedMessage
end tell
 
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