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The default generated XML will include all attributes for the object, a type attribute for
attributes that are not of type String, and processing instructions. In addition, associations are
not expanded by default. An example of the XML for an object of our Account class would be


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The default name for the root element is the class name of the Active Record object we are
formatting. The :root option should be a string and provides you a way to override the name
of the root element:
account.to_xml(:root => "myaccount")
# =>
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You can use the :only and :except options to explicitly include or exclude attributes from
the resulting XML:
account.


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