Webservices data sources (again)

I can not get any webservices data sources working with RTF templates and neither when pressing View in the backend. The fields are not populated in the generated documents and yet when having no template defined and pressing View (template=Data) I can see the webservice response data in the backend.
Has anybody got web service data sources with "Complex type = true" working ?
Does anybody know such a web service available on the internet, that can be used for testing ?
Does anybody know what the exact criteria are for a web service to satisfy "Complex Type = false" ?
In the documentation the stock quote example is for "Complex type = false" but the wsdl contains 4 webservices with the same operation name.

Hi,
Help says:
<i>A DataSource consists of a quantity of fields that are offered for data transfer into BI. The DataSource is technically based on the fields of the extraction structure. By defining a DataSource, these fields can be enhanced as well as hidden (or filtered) for the data transfer.
Additionally, the DataSource describes the properties of the associated extractor with regard to data transfer to BI. Upon replication, the BI-relevant properties of the DataSource are made known in BI.</i>
So we can say the Datasource consists of part of the metadata of ES. So physically it does not hold the data.
With rgds,
Anil Kumar Sharma .P

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