Re: [xwiki-users] Localization module: can we have a translation string refer to another translation string ?

Officially a translation for the current default syntax is support to be plain text with just MessageFormat syntax support for (again plain text) parameters. That's the behavior you will alway get with the {{translation}} macro for example. All the translations you see with html (or worst wiki syntax) are very bad hacks. The only hack (there is no clean one) I can see (which does not work in all cases) is to use the {{translation}} macro in your second translation. MailArchiveCode.LoadingSessionClass_maxMailsNb=Max number of mails to load mailarchive.loadingSession.fields.maxMailsNb.label={{translation key="MailArchiveCode.LoadingSessionClass_maxMailsNb"}}. We really need support for variables in localization modules (something like mailarchive.loadingSession. fields.maxMailsNb.label={{MailArchiveCode.LoadingSessionClass_maxMailsNb}}) ) and I designed it in order to make easy to support it later but the localization module went lower in my priority list these days. In the meantime something you could do on your side is override the component https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi… which is the current default and only syntax and put there your own placeholder system.