in reply to How to use Perl instead of Coldfusion.
Start looking on CPAN at SOAP::WSDL and similar modules. It's not an area I've worked with recently, but I think reading the above module description may give you some clues as to how to get things going.
If you spot any bugs in my solutions, it's because I've deliberately left them in as an exercise for the reader! :-)
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