SOAP client issue: < & > removed from XML payload

[email protected] (Stephen Gray) Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:01:38 +1100

Newsgroups	php.soap
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi everyone,

I've got a problem with a program using a PHP SOAP client that gets XML 
from a Perl SOAP server. The problem is that the angle brackets (< and 
 >) are removed from the XML sent by the server by the SOAP client. I am 
sure this is a problem with the PHP client not the server, as when I 
replaced the PHP client with a Perl client the problem went away.

The code for the PHP client is as follows:

__START CODE__
<?php
	require_once 'SOAP/Client.php';

	$endpoint = "http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl";
	$soapoptions = array('namespace' => 'urn:Test',
				 'trace' => 1,
				 'timeout' => 600);
	$soapclient = new SOAP_Client($endpoint);
	
	$params = "";
	$response = $soapclient->call('Main', $params, $soapoptions);
?>

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php
	echo $response;
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>
__END CODE__

Just in case it's relevant the code for the Perl server is:

__START CODE__
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
use Test;

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
	-> dispatch_to('Test')
     	-> handle;
     	
package Test;

sub Main {
	return "<tag1><tag2>testing</tag2></tag1>";
}
__END CODE__

Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? Any help much 
appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve Gray