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The soap12 output format does not provide the context of the error - similar to the way the html output marks the errors. If this feature is added, there would need to be documented decode procedures so the code with errors could be recovered from the valid XML output.
implemented in CVS, and under discussion on the mailing-list. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007May/0086.html
Feedback on the mailing-list was positive, and change made it way to 0.8.0 beta2, see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007Jun/0002.html