SOAP PHP 5.2 and Outside WSDL's

I am connecting to a Third Party WSDL that needs me to turn return an Array
of results to them. I do and PHP returns this ...


<SOAP-ENV:Body>
   <ns1:addParties>
       <in0 xsi:type="ns2:AuthenticationInfo">
           <locale xsi:type="xsd:string">en</locale>
           <token
xsi:type="xsd:string">50d3c78a0213b3e083ce7b6c7fa760a299798246fb6bbf1dc2dc81
12a841454d5bcb9cb752b18e299cd9be84214175b6c971065d8df08b52283408b925dd854128
5a031ca29c39b945989b951e2523594f5c9c0aa7bbfc328c87441830b47cd0</token>
           <userType xsi:type="xsd:int">1</userType>
       </in0>
       <in1 SOAP-ENC:arrayType="ns2:EditConferenceParty[2]"
xsi:type="ns3:ArrayOf_tns1_EditConferenceParty">
       <item xsi:type="ns2:EditConferenceParty">
           <conferenceId xsi:type="xsd:int">163</conferenceId>
           <phoneNumber xsi:type="xsd:string">9999999999</phoneNumber>
       </item>
       <item xsi:type="ns2:EditConferenceParty">
           <conferenceId xsi:type="xsd:int">163</conferenceId>
           <phoneNumber xsi:type="xsd:string">9999999999</phoneNumber>
       </item>
   </in1>
   </ns1:addParties>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>


Problem is they need something like:

<EditConference>
   <conferenceId>163</conferenceId>
   <phoneNumber>9999999999</ phoneNumber>
</EditConference>
<EditConference>
   <conferenceId>163</conferenceId>
   <phoneNumber>9999999999</ phoneNumber>
</EditConference>

I found a good read here that says it deals with the way PHP handles
outputting arrays.

http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=soap&a=2006-01&m=1677392

Is this truly considered a bug ? If so has it been resolved in the current
releases of PHP ?

If not does anyone have a simple solution ?  I can figure out a way to code
the XML myself and send it but honestly was hoping for a simplier solution
that didn't envolve writing XML by hand.