without the need for a surrounding element. However if I omit the element name the node will not configure. How can I ahcieve this? Or later remove the surrodunding element again?
The result you want to get is not a valid XML document. An XML document must have only a single root element and not two (Compound & Version). This is the reason why you need to specify a container element that forms the new root of the document.
I would like to open this discussion again with a feature request - to add the option “omit root element” in the native XML nodes (JSON to XML, XML Row Combiner, XML Column Combiner) similar to the option seen in the native JSON Nodes. Sometimes the user wishes to add a common root element in a later node to implement more complex xml structures.