OutputFormat outFormat = new OutputFormat("XML", "UTF-8", true);
outFormat.setIndenting(true);
outFormat.setIndent(2);
outFormat.setDoctype(null, null);
XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(out, outFormat);
contentHandler = serializer.asContentHandler();
try {
contentHandler.startDocument();
contentHandler.startElement("", "", "EDITS", new AttributesImpl());
} catch (SAXException e) {
throw new IOException("SAX error: " + e.getMessage());