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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def load(self):
 """Load xml from file."""

        lg.info('Loading ' + str(self.xml_file))
        update_annotation_version(self.xml_file)

        xml = parse(self.xml_file)
        return xml.getroot()