I have a webservice using SOAP::Lite which returns a simple string 'hello world'. I have no problem accessing this from a terminal or through python.

What i am having trouble with is accessing the service through Visual Studio. I have pointed VS at my WSDL and it sees my method hi(), but its complaining i am returning plain text and not XML.

Is there a way using SOAP::Lite to just return the raw XML for the entire SOAP envelope? For example at the moment i just do

print $soap->hi->result; and this prints 'hello world'.

What i would need (i think) is something along the lines of print $soap->hi->raw_xml;

Any ideas would be appreciated. - Does anyone else have experience in this area - i am new to webservices :)

Thanks

Joe