Defining one's own macros in the XML files?

Hi,

when translating Changes/2006 into German, I noticed that
there are some 
texts that are redundantly translated. For example, I'd
like to have a macro

<developermail
     from="&a.tron;"
     list="netbsd-announce"
     mailid="2006/04/26/0000"/>

Which would expand to "See also &a.tron;'s mail
to the netbsd-announce 
mailing list." Another thing that occurs often is the
addition of a new 
developer or two, though I don't know yet if it's worth
designing macros 
for it.

Ideally, of course, we had some computer language to
describe what 
happended and generate and translate the texts
automatically. 

Roland

Roland Illig <rilligNetBSD.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when translating Changes/2006 into German, I noticed
that there are some 
> texts that are redundantly translated. For example,
I'd like to have a macro
> 
> <developermail
>     from="&a.tron;"
>     list="netbsd-announce"
>     mailid="2006/04/26/0000"/>
> 
> Which would expand to "See also &a.tron;'s
mail to the netbsd-announce 
> mailing list." Another thing that occurs often is
the addition of a new 
> developer or two, though I don't know yet if it's
worth designing macros 
> for it.
> 
> Ideally, of course, we had some computer language to
describe what 
> happended and generate and translate the texts
automatically. 

Seems the mentioned phrase (See also ...) is used such often
thanks to
some laziness of www team. I'm personally always trying to
produce
variations, instead of just copying "See also
...", which sounds too
lifeless for me. So I'd prefer to continue writting this on
my own.

Well, this way usually creates extra load on native english
speakers,
who compeled to fix my errors, but this is another story


--
Mishka