PUTing a XML String

I have a pipeline that goes through some work manipulating data, then starts using a XML Generator Snap to make a bunch of XML documents that need to get PUT to a REST API. Simplified, example of a document.

    [ {"xml":"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><import-record type-id="14417"><native><field name="title"><text>Some Title</text></field></native></import-record>"}] 

Based on that document in the REST PUT, I set the HTTP entity to $xml, and then I inspect whats’s being PUT on the other side, instead of seeing the XML document as the body of the PUT I’m getting an array of 1 string with the XML document. How do I get this just to PUT the doucment directly. Example of what I’m getting on the receiving side below:

["<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><import-record type-id..."]

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