You could play around with SOAP::Lite's debugging hooks to try to get access to raw XML text of the message. Alternately, you could pass the parsed data-structure to XML::Simple's XMLout() routine, which will give you the rough equivalent.
-sam
Comment on Re: Need help with converting a text file to XML
Thanks sam,
I messed around with XMLout() before and did not get very far but after reading your post I thought I may revisit that method. So I came up with this that works for the time being. It just places the plain text attributes in <opt> </opt> tags but that is okay for now.
Here is my client code that calls a soap server that implements two functions to convert temp between celcius and farenheit.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use SOAP::Lite;
use XML::Simple;
$xmlS = new XML::Simple;
my $soap = SOAP::Lite
-> uri('http://<fubared host>/Temperatures')
-> proxy('http://<fubared host>/');
$xmlS = XMLout
($soap
->(37.5)
-> result);
print $xmlS;
print "\n";
xmlS = XMLout
($soap
-> f2c(99.5)
-> result);
print $xmlS;
print "\n";
Then later I can work on the formatting of the xml file.