Someone posted a message to the SOAP::Lite newsgroup asking a common question: How do you nest XML elements using SOAP::Lite's SOAP::Data constructs. It is a simple problem, but enough people have problems with it that I figured I would detail the answer here.
Nesting elements is actually a bit tricky. This article I wrote a while ago for builder.com.com (why on earth is their domain dotcom-dotcom? how innane) discusses this topic in much more detail. But here is the short answer:
SOAP::Data->name('foo' =>
\SOAP::Data->value(SOAP::Data->name('bar' => '123'))
In a nutshell, the above code will produce the following XML:
<foo><bar>123</bar></foo>
The trick is dereferencing the nested SOAP::Data element (shown in bold above). Doing so is very unintuitive, but it works.
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