Extension method to serialize generic objects as a SOAP formatted stream

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out a generic extension method that would serialize a given object as SOAP formatted. The actual implementation looks somewhat like this:

Foobar.cs

[Serializable, XmlRoot("foobar"), DataContract]
public class Foobar
{
    [XmlAttribute("foo"), DataMember]
    public string Foo { get; set; }

    [XmlAttribute("bar"), DataMember]
    public string Bar { get; set; }

    public Foobar() {}
}

Lipsum.cs

[Serializable, XmlRoot("lipsum"), XmlType("lipsum"), DataContract]
public class Lipsum
{
    private List<Foobar> lipsum = new List<Foobar>();

    [XmlElement("foobar"), DataMember]
    public List<Foobar> Lipsum { get { return lipsum; } }
}

}

Extensions.cs

public static void SerializeToSoap<T>(this Stream target, T source)
{
    XmlTypeMapping xmlTypeMapping = (new SoapReflectionImporter().ImportTypeMapping(typeof(T)));
    XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(xmlTypeMapping);
    xmlSerializer.Serialize(target, source);
}

Program.cs

static void Main()
{
    Lipsum lipsum = new Lipsum();
    lipsum.Lipsum.Add(
        new Foobar()
        {
            Foo = "Lorem",
            Bar = "Ipsum"
        }
    );

    using (MemoryStream persistence = new MemoryStream())
    {
        persistence.SerializeToSoap<Lipsum>(lipsum);
        Console.WriteLine(Encoding.Default.GetString(persistence.ToArray()));
        Console.WriteLine(Environment.NewLine);
    }
}

EXCEPTION

System.InvalidOperationException: Token StartElement in state Epilog would result in an invalid XML document.
   at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.AutoComplete(Token token)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteStartElement(String prefix, String localName, String ns)