[Xml-compile] setting nil attribute with wsdl derived clients

[Mark Blackman]

On 7 Jan 2009, at 11:57, Mark Overmeer wrote:

> * Mark Blackman (m.blackman at fairfx.com) [090107 11:40]:
>> I need to submit an explicit NIL for a SOAP parameter, however I'm
>> merely using
>> the WSDL derived client (via compileClient) and so I'm not sure how  
>> to
>> encode
>> an  xsi:nil="true" attribute in the %request hash. any suggestions?
>>
>> This is the definition of the parameter in the WSDL
>>
>> <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="DateOfBirthFilter"
>> nillable="true" type="s:dateTime" />
>
> should work like:
>
>   DateOfBirthFilter => 'NIL'
>
> NIL is a special constant.  See also tests in t/54nil.t

thanks!  will look at tests, but when i tried that I got...

bad name at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XML/Compile/Translate/ 
Writer.pm line 442.
(XML::Compile v 0.99)

which, looking at the code, seems impossible for that parameter.

- Mark