XML : lxml - validation with schema at parse time - jump over syntax error

I have a function like this:

  import lxml.etree as ET    def do_things(filename, schema=None):      """ Do things with XML file, and use schema     for validation at parse time        Params:          filename: file path for XML file          schema: schema for validation      returns: things      """      iter_file = ET.iterparse(filename, schema=schema)      while True:          try:              event, element = iter_file.next()              #do things          except StopIteration:              break          except ET.XMLSyntaxError as e:              print(e.message)      return #things    

I want to iterate over my XML file and use a .xsd schema file for validation at parse time. When a error XMLSyntaxError comes up, I want to be able to continue iterating. (In the end I want to be able to summarise where and how many syntax errors have occured). However, on my current solution the .next() method returns me always the same element where the first syntax error occurred.