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How to pass rich text to cocoa or is Mail.app "content" is not text?

Dear List.

I tried to pass the content of a Mail.app message to an Objective-C (class-) method. If you look at the dictionary, then "the content" is described as "text" and "text" in AppleScript means rich text (w/ attachments) rather than "string". If you look into the developer documentation, then AppleScript's text corresponds to NSText.

However, if I try pass "the content of message myMessage" to Cocoa via a
call method "processText:" of class "textHelper" with parameter theContent
I receive the text as NSCFString on the cocoa side, so ALL rich text formatting information is lost!

BTW: The style info is also lost if you do
set theContent to the content of message theMeassageA as text
set the content of messageB to theContent
but if you do
set the content of messageB to the content of message theMeassageA

I thought that "text" is "rich text", ie. "text" is NSText. What is wrong here and how can I extract the rich text of a Mail.app message and pass it to cocoa or to another message?

(Of course, the motivation for this is the very slow string processing in AppleScript, which I would like to avoid - see my other post).

Thank you.

Christian

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