Thanks so much -- setting autotype was what I needed. I have another question though. 
my $service = SOAP::Lite->new(uri => $soapaction, proxy => $endpoint);

my $header = SOAP::Header->new(uri => 'www.ABSNet.net');
$header->name(AuthHeader => {'UserName' => $username, 'Password' => $p
+assword});

$service->autotype(0);
$service->on_action(sub { return $ACTION; });
my $response = $service->AddCUSIP(SOAP::Data->name("cusip" => $input),
+ $header);

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Right now UserName, Password and cusip tags are not prepended with appropriate tags, so to make it work I can manually add "namesp2:" prefixes like this: 
$header->name(AuthHeader => {'namesp1:UserName' => $username, 'namesp1
+:Password' => $password});
my $response = $service->AddCUSIP(SOAP::Data->name("namesp2:cusip" => 
+$input), $header);

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But my feeling is that there has to be a better way. Thanks...

In reply to Re^2: Using SOAP::Lite, is it possible to get rid of SOAPStruct from request header XML by minya
in thread Using SOAP::Lite, is it possible to get rid of SOAPStruct from request header XML by minya

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