SOAP client issue: < & > removed from XML payload

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