in reply to Re: Displaying SOAP::Lite request XML
in thread Displaying SOAP::Lite request XML

Ok, so it was a simple matter of adding the following code to the use SOAP::Lite statement.
use SOAP::Lite +trace => [ transport => sub { print $_[0]->as_string } ];
Not quite as flexible as I was hoping, but it does the job. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.