Setting up style in defs not working.

[Phil Scadden <P....@gns.cri.nz>]

If I manually create an svg
<svg…>
<defs id="genericDefs">
        <style>
            @import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Basic");
        </style>
</defs>
<g><g style=" font-weight:bold; font-family:'Basic'; image-rendering:optimizeQuality;"><text x="277" xml:space="preserve" y="24" style="stroke:none;">my text</text>…. Etc etc

Then all is well  - it renders with the google font.

However, trying to create this Batik is turning into a mission. I have tried a lot of variations on this:
        DOMImplementation domImpl = GenericDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
        String svgNS = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
        Document document = domImpl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null);
        SVGGraphics2D svg = new SVGGraphics2D(document);
        Element root =  svg.getRoot();

          defs = root.getElementsByTagNameNS(svgNS, "defs").item(0);
        Element style = document.createElementNS
            (SVGSyntax.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI, SVGSyntax.SVG_STYLE_TAG);
        style.setAttributeNS(null, SVGSyntax.SVG_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE, "text/css");
        style.appendChild(document.createCDATASection("@import url(\"https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans\");"));
        defs.appendChild(style);

if I examine the structure in the debugger, it looks fine. However, if I continue and the SVGGraphic2D to create text etc, then the output svg (embedded in
an HTML page) does not contain the style with defs, and it doesn’t honour the
        Font f = new Font("Open Sans", Font.BOLD, 12);
        g2d.setFont(f);

Clearly something missing here? My desire is to render text with a google font.
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