Re: text/xml for SOAP is incorrect

Henrik,

Certainly you agree that SOAP is it's own thing.
It just happens to also be XML. SOAP has its own process 
model. Why the resistance to a soap-specific
media type? Certainly seems mostly harmless to me.

Cheers,

Chris

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >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