Here's my example, SOAP::Lite v0.710.5, I used fujiman's response
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
my $response = <<'__RESPONSE__';
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:11:44 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:11:39 GMT
Client-Peer: 65.120.87.83:8180
Client-Response-Num: 1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envel
+ope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://
+www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<doSelectResponse xmlns="test">
<doSelectReturn xmlns=""><?xml version="1.0" encoding=
+"UTF-8"?>
<UDSObjectList>
<UDSObject>
<Handle>pcat:400004</Handle>
<Attributes>
<Attribute DataType="2002">
<AttrName>sym</AttrName>
<AttrValue>Hosted Solutions Support</AttrValue>
</Attribute>
<Attribute DataType="2002">
<AttrName>description</AttrName>
<AttrValue/>
</Attribute>
</Attributes>
</UDSObject>
</UDSObjectList>

</doSelectReturn>
</doSelectResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
__RESPONSE__
my $response_xml = $1 if $response=~ /.+?(<\?xml.+Envelope>)\s*$/s;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Indent=1;
print Dumper( XMLin( $response_xml )), $/,'----',$/;
use SOAP::Lite;
my $d = SOAP::Custom::XML::Deserializer->deserialize( $response_xml );
print $d->valueof('/Envelope/Body'), $/,'----',$/;
__END__
$VAR1 = {
'xmlns:xsi' => 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance',
'xmlns:xsd' => 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema',
'soapenv:Body' => {
'doSelectResponse' => {
'xmlns' => 'test',
'doSelectReturn' => {
'xmlns' => '',
'content' => '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<UDSObjectList>
<UDSObject>
<Handle>pcat:400004</Handle>
<Attributes>
<Attribute DataType="2002">
<AttrName>sym</AttrName>
<AttrValue>Hosted Solutions Support</AttrValue>
</Attribute>
<Attribute DataType="2002">
<AttrName>description</AttrName>
<AttrValue/>
</Attribute>
</Attributes>
</UDSObject>
</UDSObjectList>
'
}
}
},
'xmlns:soapenv' => 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
};
----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<UDSObjectList>
<UDSObject>
<Handle>pcat:400004</Handle>
<Attributes>
<Attribute DataType="2002">
<AttrName>sym</AttrName>
<AttrValue>Hosted Solutions Support</AttrValue>
</Attribute>
<Attribute DataType="2002">
<AttrName>description</AttrName>
<AttrValue/>
</Attribute>
</Attributes>
</UDSObject>
</UDSObjectList>
----