It sounds like you just want to write a custom deserializer then.

You can either extend the SOAP::Serializer in SOAP::Lite to do what you need, or if you already have everything, you can create something with a 'deserialize' method. 

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
  ->uri($uri)
  ->proxy($proxy)
  ->deserializer( My::Deserializer->new() );

$soap->DoSomething();

#####
# fake deserializer, for debugging purposes

package My::Deserializer;
use SOAP::Lite;
use base qw(SOAP::Deserializer);

sub deserialize {
    require Data::Dumper;
    warn "deserializer : ",Dumper(@_);
    SOAP::Deserializer::deserialize( @_ );
}

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(note -- I've hacked this up from the deserializer that I use for debugging, but I have another layer of abstraction in there, so this should serve as a base, but may not work directly out of the box)

In reply to Re: Reading the XML Response in SOAP::Lite by jhourcle
in thread Reading the XML Response in SOAP::Lite by XenoCyber

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