The web-service exposes a SOAP interface, including a WSDL description of the service at:

  http://ws.cdyne.com/SpellChecker/check.asmx?WSDL

To talk to the service, use SOAP::WSDL.

Something like the following should work (modify as appropriate with license key and real content to be checked): 

use strict;
use warnings;
use SOAP::WSDL;
use Data::Dumper;

# config vars
my $tocheck = "you want a test?\nthars ees my boody text";
my $license = '12345yourlicensekey';
my $service = 'http://ws.cdyne.com/SpellChecker/check.asmx';
my $wsdl    = "$service?WSDL";

# initialise the SOAP proxy object
my $soap = SOAP::WSDL->new();
$soap->wsdl($wsdl);
# $soap->on_action(sub { return $_[0].$_[1]; }); # uncomment if you ge
+t a soapfault containing something like 'invalid SOAPAction'.
$soap->proxy($service);
$soap->wsdlinit(caching => 1) 
  || die "couldn't connect to soap service!";

# call the CheckTextBody method exposed by the web-service
my $som = $soap->CheckTextBody(
   BodyText   => $tocheck,
   LicenseKey => $license);

# examine the result returned by the web-service
if ($som->fault) {
  print "REQUEST FAILED!\n\n";
  print "Soap Fault ==> ".$som->faultstring."\n";
} else {
  print "REQUEST SUCCESSFUL!\n\n";
  print Dumper($som->paramsall);
}

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It just dumps the returned data-structure, so you'll need to have a look at what it contains to figure out what to do next.

The WSDL formally describes what will be returned in the definition of the DocumentSummary complexType.

-David

In reply to Re: Help with using XML SpellChecker Service by erroneousBollock
in thread Help with using XML SpellChecker Service by Anonymous Monk

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