Here is an example of how you can do this, generating valid XML. I also use the Jackson library in a Maven project.

Maven setup:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml/jackson-xml-databind -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-xml-databind</artifactId>
        <version>0.6.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.8.6</version>
    </dependency>

Here is some Java code that first converts a JSON string to an object and then converts the object with the XMLMapper to XML and also removes any wrong element names. The reason for replacing wrong characters in XML element names is the fact that you can use in JSON element names like $oid with characters not allowed in XML. The Jackson library does not account for that, so I ended up adding some code which removes illegal characters from element names and also the namespace declarations.

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.xml.XmlMapper;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * Converts JSON to XML and makes sure the resulting XML 
 * does not have invalid element names.
 */
public class JsonToXMLConverter {

    private static final Pattern XML_TAG =
            Pattern.compile("(?m)(?s)(?i)(?<first><(/)?)(?<nonXml>.+?)(?<last>(/)?>)");

    private static final Pattern REMOVE_ILLEGAL_CHARS = 
            Pattern.compile("(i?)([^\\s=\"'a-zA-Z0-9._-])|(xmlns=\"[^\"]*\")");

    private ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

    private XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();

    String convertToXml(Object obj) throws IOException {
        final String s = xmlMapper.writeValueAsString(obj);
        return removeIllegalXmlChars(s);
    }

    private String removeIllegalXmlChars(String s) {
        final Matcher matcher = XML_TAG.matcher(s);
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        while(matcher.find()) {
            String elementName = REMOVE_ILLEGAL_CHARS.matcher(matcher.group("nonXml"))
                    .replaceAll("").trim();
            matcher.appendReplacement(sb, "${first}" + elementName + "${last}");
        }
        matcher.appendTail(sb);
        return sb.toString();
    }

    Map<String, Object> convertJson(String json) throws IOException {
        return mapper.readValue(json, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>(){});
    }

    public String convertJsonToXml(String json) throws IOException {
        return convertToXml(convertJson(json));
    }
}

Here is a JUnit test for convertJsonToXml:

@Test
void convertJsonToXml() throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException {
    try(InputStream in = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("json/customer_sample.json")) {
        String json = new Scanner(in).useDelimiter("\\Z").next();
        String xml = converter.convertJsonToXml(json);
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = db.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8")));
        Node first = doc.getFirstChild();
        assertNotNull(first);
        assertTrue(first.getChildNodes().getLength() > 0);
    }
}

There is no "one-to-one" mapping between XML and JSON, so converting one to the other necessarily requires some understanding of what you want to do with the results.

That being said, Python's standard library has several modules for parsing XML (including DOM, SAX, and ElementTree). As of Python 2.6, support for converting Python data structures to and from JSON is included in the json module.

So the infrastructure is there.