JEditorPane - backmapping highlighted text to source html document

Hello everyone,
I have the following problem: I display a HTML document in JEditorPane. Then I highlight some chunk of text and get the start and the end selection offsets by using getSelectionStart() and getSelectionEnd() methods, respectively. What I would like to know is the exact position (character offset) of the highlighted text in the original HTML document that is being displayed.
Does anybody know the solution for that?
Thanks.

I don't think it's possible. The parser builds a Document out of the text and doesn't keep the original source text. For example if your html is like this:
String text = "<html><body> some text </body></html>";All the multiple spaces between the text is parsed out.
Use a JTextPane and use attributes. Its easier to work with than using HTML.

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