Thanks everyone for the replies.

I think I'll stick with the 'traditional' syntax... at least until I really have this chained thing worked out in my head.

Re the second part - the bit where the perl namespace is populated... I'm still not clear on where SOAP::Lite finds what names/methods are available on the remote server.

What I'm doing is trying to talk to a Cisco Call Manager (some of you may remember my previous attempt doing it with XML::Twig which turned out to be a dead end), and I don't know what the method names are. I have a working example of what should be 'on the wire', but I don't know what method I should be calling to get SOAP::Lite to create the correct request packets.

For example, after creating a SOAP::Lite object and specifying the uri and proxy, I would expect to execute something like this:

my $response = $soap->functionname(param,param,param)->result
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... but I don't know what 'functioname' is.

If it helps anyone answer my question, this is the working packet trace that I did by manually posting the request to the SOAP handler.

REQUEST

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/env
+elope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:x
+sd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <axl:getPhone xmlns:axl="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/1.0" xsi:sch
+emaLocation="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/1.0 http://myhost/schema/axlsoa
+p.xsd"  sequence="1234">
            <phoneName>SEP000011112222</phoneName>
        </axl:getPhone>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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<SOAP-ENV:Envelope  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/en
+velope/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enco
+ding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<axl:getPhoneResponse  xmlns:axl="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/1.0" xmlns:
+xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="h
+ttp://www.cisco.com/AXL/1.0 http://MCSCM1/CCMApi/AXL/V1/axlsoap.xsd" 
+sequence="1234">
<return>
<device>
   (loads of response data removed)
</device>
</return>
</axl:getPhoneResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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