public static void streamNullDocument(ContentHandler contentHandler) throws SAXException { contentHandler.startDocument(); contentHandler.startPrefixMapping(XMLConstants.XSI_PREFIX, XMLConstants.XSI_URI); final AttributesImpl attributes = new AttributesImpl(); attributes.addAttribute(XMLConstants.XSI_URI, "nil", "xsi:nil", "CDATA", "true"); contentHandler.startElement("", "null", "null", attributes); contentHandler.endElement("", "null", "null"); contentHandler.endPrefixMapping(XMLConstants.XSI_PREFIX); contentHandler.endDocument(); }