I'm attempting to construct a SOAP request with SOAP::Lite and running into a problem. The request should look like this when it arrives at the server:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
- <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/env
+elope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http:
+//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
- <soapenv:Body>
- <ns1:edfSubmit soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soa
+p/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://www.n-able.com/schemas/EDF/1.0">
  <arg1 xsi:type="xsd:string">ABCDEFG1234</arg1> 
- <arg2 xsi:type="soapenc:Array" soapenc:arrayType="xsd:anyType[1]" xm
+lns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <item href="#id0" /> 
  </arg2>
  </ns1:edfSubmit>
- <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://sc
+hemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns2:T_EDFData" xmlns:soap
+enc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns2="http://Def
+aultNamespace">
  <delayToSend xsi:type="xsd:int">10</delayToSend> 
  <errorMessage xsi:type="xsd:string" /> 
  <jobID xsi:type="xsd:string">2</jobID> 
- <values xsi:type="soapenc:Array" soapenc:arrayType="xsd:anyType[3]">
  <item href="#id1" /> 
  <item href="#id2" /> 
  <item href="#id3" /> 
  </values>
  </multiRef>
- <multiRef id="id2" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://sc
+hemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns3:T_EDFValues" xmlns:ns
+3="http://DefaultNamespace" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org
+/soap/encoding/">
  <scanDetail xsi:type="xsd:string">detail2</scanDetail> 
  <value xsi:type="xsd:string">value2</value> 
  </multiRef>
- <multiRef id="id1" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://sc
+hemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns4:T_EDFValues" xmlns:ns
+4="http://DefaultNamespace" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org
+/soap/encoding/">
  <scanDetail xsi:type="xsd:string">detail1</scanDetail> 
  <value xsi:type="xsd:string">value1</value> 
  </multiRef>
- <multiRef id="id3" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://sc
+hemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns5:T_EDFValues" xmlns:ns
+5="http://DefaultNamespace" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org
+/soap/encoding/">
  <scanDetail xsi:type="xsd:string">detail3</scanDetail> 
  <value xsi:type="xsd:string">value3</value> 
  </multiRef>
  </soapenv:Body>
  </soapenv:Envelope>

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Not all of this is important, only the fact that edfSubmit and multiRef are separate body parts in this request. I am attempting to use the following code to construct the request:

my $sl = SOAP::Lite
    ->uri("http://backup.united-systems.com")
    ->proxy("http://backup.united-systems.com/rpctest.pl");
my @headers = (SOAP::Data->name('edfSubmit')->attr({'ns1' => 'http://w
+ww.n-able.com/schemas/EDF/1.0'}));
my @data = (SOAP::Data->name('multiRef')->type('ns2:T_EDFData'));

$sl->call('edfSubmit', @headers, @data);

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Using the above code makes multiRef a child of edfSubmit. Is there any way to get around this using SOAP::Lite, or do I need to use some other SOAP class to properly construct this?

In reply to Constructing a SOAP request by dirtdart

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