Sorry, don't bother - I didn't realize that I have to use esc for displaying strings - been jumping through all kinds of hoops to find out why the text wasn't showing up :)

Vamsee Kanakala wrote:

Hi,

I suspect this has got to do with not properly understanding what gensym does, but I think this should work, but I'm only getting empty <li> elements from the list-items function. Where am I going wrong?

(defun list-items () (let ((=value= (gensym))) (loop for =value= to 15 collecting `((:li (write-to-string ,=value=))))))

(defmacro show-errors () `(with-html-output (*standard-output*) (:div :id "errorExplanation" (:ul ,@(list-items)))))

Thanks, Vamsee.