Building DOM Object From Multiple Threads

My multi threaded application processes and loads records into an ECM repository. For reconcliation purposes , I am trying to build an XML format report with the results of the processing per record, while processing is underway per thread. The method below is called from every thread wvery time its ready to append an element to the DOM with the status.

public void writeReportLine(Element rptLine) {
// Write output to report file
synchronized (XMLReportHandler.class) {
reportOutput.getDocumentElement().appendChild(rptLine);
}
}

After all processing completes, the below method is called only once by every thread to write to the File on the file system:

public void writeToReportFile() {
synchronized (XMLReportHandler.class) {
try{
//write the content into xml file
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(reportOutput);
 
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The problem is that when under load, the threads just seem to hang while the transformer.transform(source, result) call keeps getting executed until there is an interrupt of some sort. I was able to examine a section of what was appended and it was status for records that had finished processing very early in the process based on my application logs. Once an interrupt is recieved , it looks like the threads recover.