docs: def _remove_unicode_encoding(xml_file):
      '''
      attempts to remove the "encoding='unicode'" from an xml file
      as lxml does not support that on a windows node currently
      see issue #38100
      '''
      with salt.utils.files.fopen(xml_file, 'rb') as f:
          xml_content = f.read()
      modified_xml = re.sub(r' encoding=[\'"]+unicode[\'"]+', '', xml_content.decode('utf-16'), count=1)
      xmltree = lxml.etree.parse(six.StringIO(modified_xml))
      return xmltree