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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 addElement(self, parent, tag, value):
 """Add an RSS item."""

        elem = self.rss.createElement(tag)
        node = self.rss.createTextNode(value)
        return parent.appendChild(elem).appendChild(node)