#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use SOAP::Lite;
use SOAP::Lite 0.65 +trace => 'debug';

use Encode;

print SOAP::Lite->new->serializer->envelope(
    method => 'DreamT', 
## xsd:base64Binary
#    SOAP::Data->new(City => q!Säffle!),
#    SOAP::Data->name( "City"    => encode('UTF-8',q!Säffle!)),
## not well-formed (invalid token) 
#    SOAP::Data->type("xsd:string")->name( "City"    => q!Säffle!),
## perfect
    SOAP::Data->type("xsd:string")->name( "City"    => encode('UTF-8',q!Säffle!)),
);


__END__
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <DreamT>
      <City xsi:type="xsd:string">Säffle</City>
    </DreamT>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>