I have a SOAP server that dispatches to a module fine. Once it gets to the sendMsg2Vbs subroutine the incoming data is a hash that I cannot output to a file which is what I need to do. The incoming data is coming from a client that I have no control over. It's also loaded with tags containing attributes like this <Entity name="city" sectionEntityMapId="190" value="EAST DOVER"/>. Ultimately, I want to create an xml file with the entire incoming xml message. How do I do this? Thank you for your help.

Here is my SOAP server: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
use lib '/var/www/soap';
use vbsservice;

my $server = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
      ->dispatch_to('sendMsg2Vbs')
      ->handle;
1;

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Here is the vbsservice module: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

package vbsservice;
use Switch;
use warnings;
use Exporter;
our @ISA = (Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw(sendMsg2Vbs);

sub sendMsg2Vbs {

        my($class,$data)=@_;

...

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I'd like to output $data to a file but it is a hash. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

In reply to Caturing incoming XML from SOAP server by gackles

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