Thank you. Even Dumper doesn't show me the attributes. I have Wireshark monitoring the incoming messages and there I do see the entire message coming in with the attributes. Here is the Dumper result:

$VAR1 = {
          'Request_Id' => '999999',
          'Section' => [
                       {
                         'Entity' => [
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     ''
                                   ]
                       },
                       {
                         'Entity' => [
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     ''
                                   ]
                       },
                       {
                         'Entity' => [
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     ''
                                   ]
                       }
                     ],
          'RequestType' => 'CHANGE',
          'RequestStatus' => 'PENDING',
          'VtacContactPhone' => '555-555-5555',
          'Action' => 'APPROVE',
          'VtacContactName' => 'CYNTHIA',
          'NegotiatorPhone' => '555-555-5555',
          'IssuedDate' => '12/10/2015 09:29:02 AM',
          'NegotiatorName' => 'MICHELLE'
        };
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If you want to parse the XML then XML::Twig is one option

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = do{local $/;<DATA>};

my %data=();
my $t = XML::Twig->new( 
  twig_handlers=> {
    Section => \&section
  },       
);
$t->parse($xml);
print Dumper \%data;

sub section {
  my ($t,$e) = @_;
  my $type = $e->att('type');
  for ($e->children('Entity')){
    push @{$data{$type}},$_->atts;
  }
};

__DATA__
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poj

Thank you poj. Trying to determine where to apply your example. Would I make that the main web service? or you that be the module that my soap server dispatches to?

If you want to parse the XML then XML::Twig is one option

kinda goes against the idea of a SOAP server to have to parse XML yourself :)

Try looking at HTML::Tree