parse nil values in xml using xmltodict library

Is there a way to read nil values correctly using xmltodict/xml.sax.xmlreader?

I tried setting up the namespaces parsing but it seems like it just ignores them when parsing this form:

<example xmlns:xsi="http://ift.tt/ra1lAU" xsi:nil="true" />

Using xmltodict I am getting the following value:

OrderedDict([(u'@http://ift.tt/1uPXZGS', u'true')])

I can just ignore it, but it seems like it should be working better