How to write an XML file without header in Python?

Question

when using Python\'s stock XML tools such as xml.dom.minidom for XML writing, a file would always start off like

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Answer 1

Purists may not like to hear this, but I have found using an XML parser to generate XML to be overkill. Just generate it directly as strings. This also lets you generate files larger than you can keep in memory, which you can't do with DOM. Reading XML is another story.