Please Help Xml output with extra lines after removeNodeChild

Question

Hi guys. I'm having trouble googling this out.
Here is the problem. Given an xml document. I read it on my app and manipulate it, then save it when I am done.
When I remove a child, the output files shows all the extra lines from the formatting and indent. So it looks like a big hole in the xml file after the node is removed. Here is an example
<bookshelf>
<books>
<book>
<isbn>3349583080580584308</isbn>
<author>Jon Stewart</author>
</book>
<book>
<isbn>9900909770543356488</isbn>
<author>Stephen Colbert</author>
</book>
</books>
</bookshelf>
Node parentNode = jonStewartNode.getParentNode();
parentNode.removeChild (jonStewartNode);The result of this is the following xml.
<bookshelf>
<books>
<book>
<isbn>9900909770543356488< /isbn>
<author>Stephen Colbert</author>
</book>
</books>
</bookshelf>
How can I output the xml without this extra lines?
Thanks in advance,
f(t)
PS: here is the initialization, and configuration of the TransformerFactory, and Transformer, and finally the save method.
     * Initializes factory instances and member variables.
    private void initialize(){
        try{
            //obtain a trasformer factory to save the file
            this.transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            this.transformerFactory.setAttribute("indent-number", 4);
            //obtain the transforme
            this.transformer = this.transformerFactory.newTransformer();
            //setup transformer
            this.transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
            this.transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            //this.transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount ", "4");
        }catch(TransformerConfigurationException tcex){
            this.logger.logException(this, "errors.storage.xml.configuringXmlTransformer", true, tcex);
     * Saves the DOM document to the XML file.
    private void saveDocument(){
        //verify that the documents is not null
        if(this.document==null)
            return;
        //sincronize document
        synchronized (this.document){
            try{
                //normalize document
                this.document.normalizeDocument();
                //get a document documentSource object out of the document
                DOMSource documentSource                = new DOMSource(this.document);
                //create the file output stream
                FileOutputStream fileOutputStream       = new FileOutputStream( this.file);
                //create the output stream writer
                OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter   = new OutputStreamWriter(fileOutputStream);
                //create the stream streamResult out to the file Stream
                StreamResult streamResult               = new StreamResult(outputStreamWriter);
                //performe the trasformation
                transformer.transform(documentSource, streamResult);
                //clean up
                outputStreamWriter.close();
                outputStreamWriter = null;
                fileOutputStream.close();
                fileOutputStream = null;
                documentSource = null;
            } catch (TransformerConfigurationException tcex) {
                // Error generated by the parser
                // Log Error
                this.logger.logException(this, "errors.storage.xml.saveXMLRepositoryFile", true, tcex);
            } catch (TransformerException tex) {
                // Error generated by the parser
                // Log Error
                this.logger.logException(this, "errors.storage.xml.saveXMLRepositoryFile", true, tex);
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                // Unknown error
                // Log Error
                this.logger.logException(this, "errors.storage.xml.saveXMLRepositoryFile", true, ex);
    }

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