diff --git a/t/xmlrpc.t b/t/xmlrpc.t
index c01d04b9e..45cbb400f 100644
--- a/t/xmlrpc.t
+++ b/t/xmlrpc.t
@@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ subtest 'parse_xml_value' => sub {
 		'<array><data><value><int>1</int></value><value><string>x</string></value></data></array>'));
 	is(ref($a), 'ARRAY', 'array -> arrayref');
 	is_deeply($a, [1, 'x'], 'array elements parsed in order');
+
+	# Scalar tags must retain their type when a nested value is later encoded.
+	require JSON::PP;
+	my $typed = parse_xml_value(value_tree(
+		'<struct><member><name>integer</name><value><int>1800</int></value></member><member><name>boolean</name><value><boolean>1</boolean></value></member><member><name>double</name><value><double>2.5</double></value></member><member><name>string</name><value><string>1800</string></value></member></struct>'));
+	is(JSON::PP->new->canonical->encode($typed),
+	   '{"boolean":1,"double":2.5,"integer":1800,"string":"1800"}',
+	   'nested scalar types preserved for JSON');
 };
 
 # Round-trip: encode_xml_value then parse_xml_value should reproduce the
diff --git a/xmlrpc-lib.pl b/xmlrpc-lib.pl
index 8a7fdb69a..d0d5f0edd 100644
--- a/xmlrpc-lib.pl
+++ b/xmlrpc-lib.pl
@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ my ($base64) = &find_xmls("base64", $value, 1);
 my ($struct) = &find_xmls("struct", $value, 1);
 my ($array) = &find_xmls("array", $value, 1);
 if ($scalar) {
-    my ($type, $content) = ($scalar->[0], $scalar->[1]->[2] // "");
+	my ($type, $content) = ($scalar->[0], $scalar->[1]->[2] // "");
+	$type = lc($type);
 
-    return int($content) if ($type eq "int" || $type eq "i4");
-    return $content ? 1 : 0 if ($type eq "boolean");
-    return $content + 0.0 if ($type eq "double");
+	return int($content) if ($type eq "int" || $type eq "i4");
+	return $content ? 1 : 0 if ($type eq "boolean");
+	return $content + 0.0 if ($type eq "double");
 
-    return $content;
+	return $content;
 	}
 elsif ($date) {
 	# Need to decode date