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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 create_xml_dom_element(doc, name, value):
 """Returns an XML DOM element with name and text value. Args: doc: minidom.Document, the DOM document it should create nodes from. name: str, the tag of XML element. value: object, whose string representation will be used as the value of the XML element. Illegal or highly discouraged xml 1.0 characters are stripped. Returns: An instance of minidom.Element. """

  s = str_or_unicode(value)
  if six.PY2 and not isinstance(s, unicode):
    # Get a valid unicode string.
    s = s.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
  if isinstance(value, bool):
    # Display boolean values as the C++ flag library does: no caps.
    s = s.lower()
  # Remove illegal xml characters.
  s = _ILLEGAL_XML_CHARS_REGEX.sub(u'', s)

  e = doc.createElement(name)
  e.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(s))
  return e