How to call Clojure Macros from Java?

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Is there anyway to call Clojure macros from Java?

Here is what I am trying to do:

RT.var("clojure.core", "require").invoke(Symbol.create("clojure.contrib.prxml"));
Var prxml = RT.var("clojure.contrib.prxml", "prxml");
Var withOutStr = RT.var("clojure.core", "with-out-str");
String stringXML = (String) withOutStr.invoke((prxml.invoke("[:Name \"Bob\"]")));

prxml writes to *out* by default which is why I need to wrap it with the macro with-out-str which returns the string.

I am getting this error:

 [java] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong number of args (1) passed to: core$with-out-str
 [java]     at clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity(AFn.java:437)
 [java]     at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:412)
 [java]     at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:365)
 [java]     at JavaClojure.xml.main(Unknown Source)
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