title: Reference one string from another string in strings.xml?
body: <p>I would like to reference a string from another string in my strings.xml file, like below (specifically note the end of the "message_text" string content):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;resources&gt;
      &lt;string name="button_text"&gt;Add item&lt;/string&gt;
      &lt;string name="message_text"&gt;You don't have any items yet! Add one by pressing the \'@string/button_text\' button.&lt;/string&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried the above syntax but then the text prints out the "@string/button_text" as clear text. Not what I want. I would like the message text to print "You don't have any items yet! Add one by pressing the 'Add item' button."</p>
  
  <p>Is there any known way to achieve what I want? </p>
  
  <p><strong>RATIONALE:</strong><br/>
  My application has a list of items, but when that list is empty I show a "@android:id/empty" TextView instead. The text in that TextView is to inform the user how to add a new item. I would like to make my layout fool-proof to changes (yes, I'm the fool in question :-)</p>