Placate mypy (redux) (Sourcery refactored)

[sourcery-ai]

Pull Request #197 refactored by Sourcery.

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[sourcery-ai]

Function getXMLHeader refactored with the following changes:

• Remove unnecessary casts to int, str, float or bool (remove-unnecessary-cast)

[randomnetcat]

Closing for now, unless and until the original PR is revisited.