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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 get_xml_root(xml_path):
 """Load and parse an xml by given xml_path and return its root. :param xml_path: URL to a xml file :type xml_path: str :return: xml root """

    r = requests.get(xml_path)
    root = ET.fromstring(r.content)
    return root