RE: text/xml for SOAP is incorrect

>Sure, why not? You can reflect the SOAP version in a MIME 
>"version" parameter on the Content-Type header. Dispatchers 
>can choose whether to use this (or not) as they see fit. A 
>SOAP processor can make the determination as to support of the 
>namespace by inspecting the namespace and further dispatching 
>as needed (or loading the right modules, schema, whatever).

How is this different from regular XML processing to the degree that it
requires a special content type?

Henrik