Hello,

I'm a newbie with Elisp and Lisp in general; what I'm trying to do is to
customize the preamble format for a publishing-project I'm using.

I'm able to configure the HTML preamble for each project using this
configuration;

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("Pagine in italiano"
 :language it

[...]

 :html-preamble t
 :html-preamble-format (("en"
  			"<div><div><a href=\"/\">Home</a><span class=\"pre-sep\">|</span><a href=\"/colophon.html\">Colophon</a></div> <hr style='height:0.5px'></div>")
  		       ("it"
  			"<div><div><a href=\"/it/\">Home</a><span class=\"pre-sep\">|</span><a href=\"/it/colophon.html\">Colophon</a></div> <hr style='height:0.5px'></div>")))

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This works well but I'd like to use xmlgen to format the html parts of
:html-preamble-format

If I use this:

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:html-preamble-format (("en"
			(xmlgen
			 '(div
			   (div
			    (a :href "/" "Home")
			    (span :class "pre-sep" "|")
			    (a :href "/colophon.html" "Colophon")))))
		       ("it"
			(xmlgen
			 '(div
			   (div
			    (a :href "/" "Home")
			    (span :class "pre-sep" "|")
			    (a :href "/colophon.html" "Colophon"))))))

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(yes I know, the HTML results of xmgen does not match with the ones above
but that's not the issue)

I get this error:

Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, (xmlgen '(div (div (a :href "/" "Home") (span :class "pre-sep" "|") (a :href "/colophon.html" "Colophon"))))

If I try to evaluate the (xmlgen ...) part in a separate buffer I get
correct sting representation in HTML but in ":html-preamble-format" it
does not work.

Please what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks! Giovanni.

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Giovanni Biscuolo