Thank you, I'm looking into the script that generates the response to see if it can be changed. The owner of the web service said the following as I was building the call to the web service.
There is a single element in the request which accepts a string, but the string is XML, and as such needs to be encoded
I think that is why its embedded within on <return> element. Unfortunately that is not something I can avoid, if that is indeed the case. Here is the soap envelope that makes the call: 
requestbody = requestbody & "<SOAP-ENV:Body><ns1:VehicleInfo >"
requestbody = requestbody & "<xmlRequest xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org
+/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" xsi:type=""xsd:string"">"
requestbody = requestbody & "<FCSDServicesRequest marketid=""1"" langu
+age=""ENG"" country=""USA"" xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSch
+ema-instance"" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=""FCSDServices.xsd"">"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Vehicles>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Vehicle vin=""1FMFU17L94LB04622""/>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Vehicle vin=""1FTRX12W88KD10648""/>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Vehicle vin=""2MEHM75W26X618474""/>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</Vehicles>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<ServiceRequests>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<VINDecodeService>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Attribute typeid=""14"" type=""Year""/>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Attribute typeid=""1"" type=""Make""/>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Attribute typeid=""2"" type=""Model""/>"
requestbody = requestbody & "<Attribute typeid=""3"" type=""Series""/>
+"
requestbody = requestbody & "</VINDecodeService>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</ServiceRequests>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</FCSDServicesRequest>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</xmlRequest>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</ns1:VehicleInfo>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</SOAP-ENV:Body>"
requestbody = requestbody & "</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"

[download]

In reply to Re^2: XML SOAP Response by mitchismoney
in thread XML SOAP Response by mitchismoney

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.