How to save/load JTextPane to/from file?

Question

One of the simplest questions re Swing.
How to save a JTextField onto a file?
And, how to read back it onto a newed JTextPane?
Yes, I have searched, searched and searched on the net, in vain.

Answer 1

Assuming he's wanting to do the reasonable thing, I'm trying to do it too.
linuxoid, I suspect he (and I) are looking for a way to save the contents. After all, a control that you can't get the information out of is pretty useless.
Styled text is often just a BLOB to the rest of the app. It is in my case, and it probably is in his.
I'm having the same trouble he is.
I want to make a JTextPane, let the user edit it, then get some reasonably portable representation of it's current contents that I can serialize. A string representation of XML sounds dandy. Incomprehensible binary is acceptable. A representation in some markup language that I can insert in some other document and have it act like I'm inserting text in the editor would make me more than happy.
Ideally, what I, and probably he, are looking for is something like
JTextPane myPainIsGreat = new JTextPane();
... life goes on...the user writes poetry and turns the words tacky colors...
String thisICanDealWith = myPainIsGreat.getStyledTextRepresentation();
knowing better I'd settle for
myPainIsGreat.writeStyled(someWriter)
sadly, JTextPane's write just returns unstyled text