Schematron validation with lxml in Python: how to get validation errors?

I am trying to perform a Schematron validation using lxml. For the particular application I'm working on, it's important that any tests that fail validation are returned. The lxml documentation mentions having a property object validation_report

. I think this should contain the information I'm looking for, but I just can't figure out how to work with it. Here is some sample code that demonstrates my problem (adapted from http://lxml.de/validation.html#id2 , tested with Python 2.7.4):

import StringIO
from lxml import isoschematron
from lxml import etree

def main():

    # Schema
    f = StringIO.StringIO('''\
    <schema xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" >
    <pattern id="sum_equals_100_percent">
    <title>Sum equals 100%.</title>
    <rule context="Total">
    <assert test="sum(//Percent)=100">Sum is not 100%.</assert>
    </rule>
    </pattern>
    </schema>
    ''')

    # Parse schema
    sct_doc = etree.parse(f)
    schematron = isoschematron.Schematron(sct_doc, store_report = True)

    # XML to validate - validation will fail because sum of numbers
    # not equal to 100 
    notValid = StringIO.StringIO('''\
        <Total>
        <Percent>30</Percent>
        <Percent>30</Percent>
        <Percent>50</Percent>
        </Total>
        ''')
    # Parse xml
    doc = etree.parse(notValid)

    # Validate against schema
    validationResult = schematron.validate(doc)

    # Validation report (assuming here this is where reason 
    # for validation failure is stored, but perhaps I'm wrong?)
    report = isoschematron.Schematron.validation_report

    print("is valid: " + str(validationResult))
    print(dir(report.__doc__))

main()

      

        
        
        
      

    

Now, from the value validationResult

, I can see that the validation failed (as expected), so the following I would like to know why. The result of the second print statement gives me:

['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__
format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getnewargs__', '__get
slice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mo
d__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__',
 '__rmod__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook
__', '_formatter_field_name_split', '_formatter_parser', 'capitalize', 'center',
 'count', 'decode', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'format', 'index
', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdigit', 'islower', 'isspace', 'istitle', 'isupper',
'join', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'partition', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', '
rjust', 'rpartition', 'rsplit', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitlines', 'startswith', '
strip', 'swapcase', 'title', 'translate', 'upper', 'zfill']

      

        
        
        
      

    

As far as I understand, based on the documentation and this related question . Maybe something really obvious that I don't notice?