I'm trying to send raw XML to a wsdl service using SOAP::Lite.
Here's the relevant portion of my code: 
use SOAP::Lite  +trace =>  'debug';
my $wsurl =  'http://xxxxxxxx.com/SVC/services/Service?wsdl';
my $svc = SOAP::Lite-> service($wsurl);

$svc-> InsertData(@temparray);

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This works BUT the angle brackets are getting escaped because the data type is set to string. To fix this I attempted to use SOAP::Data to set the type to XML like so: 
use SOAP::Lite  +trace =>  'debug';
my $wsurl =  'http://xxxxxxxx.com/SVC/services/Service?wsdl';
my $svc = SOAP::Lite-> service($wsurl);
my @xmldata = SOAP::Data->type('xml' => @temparray);
$svc-> InsertData(@xmldata);

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This results in an empty call to the service (no data). If I examine the resulting @xmldata with Data::Dumper I can see the data like so: 
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 '_type' => 'xml',
                 '_signature' => [],
                 '_value' => [
                               '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+',
                               '<Data1>',
                               '<Data2>',
                               etc...
                             ],
                 '_attr' => {}
               }, 'SOAP::Data' );

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I'm pretty new at this web services stuff and I'd like to think that perl can do anything that Java/XMLSpy can do, but this is getting frustrating. I get the same results whether I sent the xml as an array or a long string.
Any help sending raw xml to a web service would be greatly appreciated. Thanks monks! Rob

In reply to SOAP::Lite, WSDLs and Raw XML Data by Ozeroc

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