I am trying to set the body of a SOAP request to a given string (the data may come from a file, for example), but I am getting an extra tag that is causing my call to error at the server. Basically, I want Soap Lite (or another library) to let me fill in EXACTLY what goes between <soap:Body> and </soap:Body> Here is the test code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use SOAP::Lite +trace;

my ($server, $endpoint, $soapaction, $method, $body, $envelope);

$server = 'http://127.0.0.1';
$endpoint = "$server/Just_Some_Test";
$soapaction = "Just_Some_Test";

# This will eventually come from a file
$body = qq~<wsap:GetData soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap
+.org/soap/encoding/">
         <Just_A_String>
         </Just_A_String>
  </wsap:GetData>
~;

# Set the envelope - Will eventually contain other specific stuff
my $envelope = SOAP::Serializer->new();
$envelope-> register_ns ("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", 
+"xsi");
$envelope-> register_ns ("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "xsd");

# Initialize the object
my $getData = SOAP::Lite
    -> serializer ($envelope)
    -> uri ($soapaction)
    -> readable (1)
    -> proxy ($endpoint)
        -> on_fault(sub { my($soap, $res) = @_; 
                 die ref $res ? "ERROR " . $res->faultdetail : "ERROR 
+" .$soap->transport->status, "\n";
               })
;

# Make the call and set the Body of the message
my $response = $getData->call( method => SOAP::Data->type(xml => $body
+) );

if ( $response->fault ) {
    printf "***A fault (%s) occurred: %s\n",
        $response->faultcode, $response->faultstring;
} else {
    print "***Response: " . $response->result . "\n";
}
exit;

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The above code produces the following: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
    soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <method xmlns="Just_Some_Test">
      <wsap:GetData soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/
+soap/encoding/">
         <Just_A_String>
         </Just_A_String>
  </wsap:GetData>
    </method>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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I've looked at some of the threads on setting the body to raw XML, but there always seems to be some extra tags left over. The above is almost perfect! I just need to get rid of: 
 <method xmlns="Just_Some_Test">

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and it's closing tag. Can this be done?

In reply to SOAP? Setting BODY Manually by marcjb

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