I only got the following in my output file...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Did you include the line $new->addChild($features); ?

a nice formatted output

Did you include the format argument 2 in $new->toFile($filename,2) ? You can also print $new->toString(2) when debugging.

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