[Orgmode] convert region to html?

[David O'Toole]

I am working on my blog extension for org-publish. I would like to
convert a region of text (say, between two markers) from org-mode
markup into html and then paste the resulting html into another buffer
where I am building a full page. I need to do this from a lisp
program. It says that org-export-as-html will export an active region
but I tried it and it doesn't work in a temp-buffer where
(buffer-file-name) is nil. Anyway, would it be hard to expose a
function like the following?

(defun org-export-region-to-html (beg end)
  "Convert region between BEG and END into HTML, placing the result
  into a new buffer. The new buffer is returned."
  ...
  ...
      

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