diff --git a/assets/pango/xml/utils.go b/assets/pango/xml/utils.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb2cf71c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/pango/xml/utils.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package xml
+
+import "bytes"
+
+func StripEntryElement(data []byte) []byte {
+	if !bytes.HasPrefix(data, []byte("<entry")) || !bytes.HasSuffix(data, []byte("</entry>")) {
+		return data
+	}
+
+	var startIdx, endIdx int
+	startIdx = bytes.Index(data, []byte(">"))
+	endIdx = len(data) - len("</entry>")
+
+	return data[startIdx+1 : endIdx]
+}
diff --git a/pkg/translate/imports.go b/pkg/translate/imports.go
index 1974ed3d..d75dac65 100644
--- a/pkg/translate/imports.go
+++ b/pkg/translate/imports.go
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ func RenderImports(templateTypes ...string) (string, error) {
 			manager.AddSdkImport("github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pango/version", "")
 		case "service":
 			manager.AddStandardImport("context", "")
+			manager.AddStandardImport("encoding/xml", "")
 			manager.AddStandardImport("fmt", "")
 			manager.AddSdkImport("github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pango/errors", "")
 			manager.AddSdkImport("github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pango/util", "")
 			manager.AddSdkImport("github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pango/xmlapi", "")
+			manager.AddSdkImport("github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pango/xml", "pangoxml")
 		case "filtering":
 			manager.AddSdkImport("github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pango/filtering", "")
 		case "audit":
diff --git a/templates/sdk/service.tmpl b/templates/sdk/service.tmpl
index 3a5b6a4f..b94e1372 100644
--- a/templates/sdk/service.tmpl
+++ b/templates/sdk/service.tmpl
@@ -70,10 +70,19 @@ if err != nil {
 return nil, err
 }
 
+data, err := xml.Marshal(createSpec)
+if err != nil {
+	return nil, err
+}
+
+// Optionally remove top entry element from marshalled data to fullfill
+// PAN-OS API requirements.
+data = pangoxml.StripEntryElement(data)
+
 cmd := &xmlapi.Config{
 Action:  "set",
-Xpath:   util.AsXpath(path[:len(path)-1]),
-Element: createSpec,
+Xpath:   util.AsXpath(path),
+Element: string(data),
 Target:  s.client.GetTarget(),
 }
 
@@ -1302,4 +1311,4 @@ func (s *Service) RemoveFromImport(ctx context.Context, loc Location, entry Entr
         return resp.Comments, nil
         }
     {{- end}}
-{{- end}}
\ No newline at end of file
+{{- end}}