public void writeCoordinates(CoordinateSequence c, ContentHandler output)
    	throws SAXException {
        
        String prefix = this.prefix + ":";
        String namespaceUri = this.namespaceUri;
        
        if ( !namespaceAware ) {
            prefix = "";
            namespaceUri = null;
        }
        
        output.startElement(namespaceUri, "coordinates", prefix + "coordinates",
                    atts);    
                
        final int coordCount = c.size();
        //used to check whether the coordseq handles a third dimension or not
        final int coordSeqDimension = c.getDimension();
        double x, y, z;
        //write down a coordinate at a time
        for (int i = 0, n = coordCount; i < n; i++) {
            x = c.getOrdinate(i, 0);
            y = c.getOrdinate(i, 1);
            
            // clear the buffer
            coordBuff.setLength(0);
            
            // format x into buffer and append delimiter
            coordFormatter.format(x,coordBuff,zero).append(coordinateDelimiter);
            // format y into buffer
            coordFormatter.format(y,coordBuff,zero);
            
            if (D == 3 || useDummyZ) {
                z = (D == 3 && coordSeqDimension > 2)? c.getOrdinate(i, 2) : dummyZ;
                coordBuff.append(coordinateDelimiter);
                coordFormatter.format(z, coordBuff, zero);
            }
            
            // if there is another coordinate, tack on a tuple delimiter
            if (i + 1 < coordCount){
                coordBuff.append(tupleDelimiter);
            }
            
            // make sure our character buffer is big enough
            if (coordBuff.length() > buff.length) {
                buff = new char[coordBuff.length()];
            }
            // copy the characters
            coordBuff.getChars(0, coordBuff.length(), buff, 0);
            
            // finally, output
            output.characters(buff, 0, coordBuff.length());
        }        
        output.endElement(namespaceUri,"coordinates", prefix + "coordinates");
    }