Trying to convert an object array into XML, can't get object headers

I'm using this XML converter, but I am not getting the object header to wrap each object's properties... I can't find a method in the encoder class to do this either.

The code iterates through my array and lists all objects that are not null.

 FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("C:\\Users\\David Laptop\\Documents\\Doc1.xml");
                XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(os);
                for( int x = 0; x < people.length;x++)
                    if (people[x] != null)
                    {
                        //header here?
                    encoder.writeObject(people[x].getName());
                    encoder.writeObject(people[x].getTelephoneNumber());
                    encoder.writeObject(people[x].getEmailAddress());

                    }
                encoder.close(); 

I get this outcome:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> java version="1.7.0_40" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder"> string dad

if I do more object entries then it ends up being a big list which isn't helpful as another function I want to implement is reading from an XML file into the array... any help on that would also be useful!