Converts a native Python dictionary into an XML string.
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Supports item (int, float, bool, str, unicode, datetime, none) and collection (list, set, tuple and dict) data types with arbitrary nesting for the collections. Items with a datetime type are converted to ISO format strings. Items with a none type become empty XML elements.
The root object passed into the dicttoxml function can be any of the supported data types.
To satisfy XML syntax, the method wraps all the dict keys/elements and values in a <root> … </root> element. However, this can be disabled to create XML snippets.
For lists of items, if each item is also a collection data type (lists, dict), the elements of that item are wrapped in a generic <item> … </item> element.
Elements with an item data type (int, float, bool, str, datetime, unicode) include a type attribute with the data type. Note: datetime data types are converted into ISO format strings, and unicode and datetime data types get a str attribute.
Elements with an unsupported data type raise a TypeError exception.
