Editor Kit Mystery behavior. I don't get how this works.

Question

I build a JTextPane which is editable, save it to a file, and load it back after which it's editing behavior is completely whacked out.
The text region is originally built like this:
        textRegion = new JTextPane();
        StyledDocument doc = textRegion.getStyledDocument();
        MutableAttributeSet attr = new SimpleAttributeSet();
        StyleConstants.setForeground(attr, Color.black);
        if ( text!=null ) {
            try {
                doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), text, attr);
            catch (BadLocationException ble) {
                System.err.println("Couldn't insert initial text into text pane.");
        ...After which I can edit the text and change font, size, color, bold, and italic.
Then I save the contents as a string put into a larger XML file like this:
    public String getXmlText() {
        // translate content and all its embedded style attributes into XML
        // Using class: MinimalHTMLWriter
        CharArrayWriter writer = null;
        try {
            writer = new CharArrayWriter();
            MinimalHTMLWriter htmlWriter = new MinimalHTMLWriter(writer, (StyledDocument)textRegion.getDocument());
            htmlWriter.write();
        catch (IOException ex) {
            System.out.println("Save error");
        catch (BadLocationException ex) {
            System.out.println("HTML File Corrupt");
        finally {
            if (writer != null) {
                writer.close();
        return writer.toString();
    }Then I reload the contents from HTML String in the saved XML file like this:
    public void setXmlText( String text ) {
        // Translate HTML in "text" into styled document
        System.out.println(text);
        CharArrayReader reader = new CharArrayReader( text.toCharArray() );
        textRegion.setContentType("text/html");
        textRegion.setText(text);
    }After which the editing of the text in the JTextPane is completely messed up.
For example, I type the text "16 point", highlight it and set it to 16 point
font and what ends up in the saved document looks like this:
        <p>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            1
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            6
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            p
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            o
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            i
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            n
          </span>
          <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Dialog">
            t
          </span>
        </p>Not only the wrong font size, but it puts paragraph tags between every single character I type! Why is this behaving so strangely?
Thanks for any insights.
--gary                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Answer 1

Thanks,
Well I guess there's always the solution of parsing out the HTML tags and rebuilding the document by applying styles, the way it was built in the first place.
--gary