Strictly speaking, that ain't necessary :)

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use SOAP::Lite;

#~ use SOAP::Lite 0.65 +trace => 'debug';
use SOAP::Lite +trace => [ 'all', '-objects' ];

my $soap =
  SOAP::Lite->proxy( 'http://localhost/blah/DummyService', timeout => 
+1, );

my $serializer = $soap->serializer();
$serializer->register_ns( 'http://mydummy.namespace.localhost', 'mns' 
+);

my $data = [
    SOAP::Data->name('mns:test'),
    SOAP::Data->name( 'mns:description' => 'an item in my namespace', 
+)
      ->type('mns:mytype')
];

print $serializer->envelope(
    method => @{ $data }
), "\n";
    
warn "\n", '-' x 66, "\n";
my $som = eval { $soap->call( @{$data} ) };
warn "\n", '-' x 66, "\n";

__END__
### *nix  $ perl testsoap.pl 3 2>/dev/null |xml_pp
$ perl testsoap.pl  2>NUL |xml_pp
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/" xmlns:mns="http://mydummy.namespace.localhost" xmlns:soap="ht
+tp://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schema
+s.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSc
+hema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <mns:test>
      <mns:description xsi:type="mns:mytype">an item in my namespace</
+mns:description>
    </mns:test>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
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