code: def xml2object(self, content):
          r
          content = self.xml_filter(content)
          element = ET.fromstring(content)
          tree = self.parse(element) if self.__options['strip_attr'] else self.parse_full(element)
          if not self.__options['strip_root']:
              node = self.get_node(element)
              if not self.__options['strip_attr']:
                  tree['attrs'] = node['attr']
              return {node['tag']: tree}
          return tree
docs: r"""Convert xml content to python object.
  
          :param content: xml content
          :rtype: dict
  
          .. versionadded:: 1.2