Coldfusion - Creating SOAP Web Service - web-services

Question

Here is the XML format that I'm trying to create a web service for:
<test a1="a1">
<e1>e1</e1>
<e2 a2="a2">
<e3>e3</e3>
<e3>e3</e3>
</e2>
</test>
My problem is that I don't know how to create a Coldfusion (cfcomponent) SOAP web service that would conform to the XML format.
This is what I have come up with:
<cfcomponent style="document" wsversion = 1 >
<cffunction name="test" returntype="String" access="remote">
<cfargument type="String" required="no" name="e1"/>
<cfargument type="xml" required="no" name="e2" />
<cfreturn "ok">
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
As you can see, a1,a2 and e3 are left out as I have no idea how to define them in the cffunction, and I'm not sure if making e2 as xml type is correct.
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

you have to use
<cfsavecontent variable="textxml">
<cfoutput>
<test a1="a1">
<e1>e1</e1>
<e2 a2="a2">
<e3>e3</e3>
<e3>e3</e3>
</e2>
</test>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>
and pass the testxml variable to the function as xml type argument.
<cfinvoke method="test" component="compname" xmltest="#textxml#">
no need to send seperate arguments e1 e2...can send testxml variable to the function.
<cfcomponent >
<cffunction name="test" returntype="String" access="remote">
<cfargument type="xml" required="no" name="xmltest" />
<cfset newXML = XMLParse(arguments.xmltest)>
<cfdump var="#newXML#">
<cfreturn "ok">
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>