def xml2object(self, content):
        r"""Convert xml content to python object.

        :param content: xml content
        :rtype: dict

        .. versionadded:: 1.2
        """
        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