I'm trying to develop a SOAP web service that's a little bit more useful than most of the samples seem to be (if I see one more 'hello world' example, I'll scream).

I'd also like to be able to consume this 'ere webservice from a .Net environment, as it will be a public API.

I'd like to be able to return a simple xml document. But at present, the only way I can see how to do this is to return a stringified version of the XML document, which seems absurd.

I've failed in my quest to find examples returning XML to be consumed, yet I can find plenty of consumers (grr!)

Does anyone have, or know of, some good examples that would fall into this category?

Edit: added below: I've got:

$retval = SOAP::Data->name('events');
        
foreach my $thisevt (keys %evtdbase)
{
    $retval->value( SOAP::Data->name('event')->value( SOAP::Data->type
+(string => $evtdbase{$thisevt} ) ) );
}
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Now; this returns a single XML element. Hopefully it's obvious from the foreach that I'm trying to create something of the form:

<events>
<event xsi:type="xsd:string">foo</event>
<event xsi:type="xsd:string">bar</event>
:
:
</events>
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But instead, I'm getting just:

<event xsi:type="xsd:string">foo</event>
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