How can I nest string resource?

Question

This is what I want to do, in standard way.

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="foo_bar">foo bar</string>

Can I rewrite like below?

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="foo_bar">@string/foo bar</string>

I know this is not in schema, however, it is OK like below,

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="altfoo">@string/foo</string>

Why!?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:26:11Z

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This

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="foo_bar">@string/foo bar</string>

wrong coz there is no resource with the name foo bar

The above would be right if you had

<string name="foo bar">foo and bar</string>
<string name="foo_bar">@string/foo bar</string>

This

<string name="foo">foo</string>
<string name="altfoo">@string/foo</string>

is right coz there is a resource with name foo and you are referencing the same

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answered Feb 25, 2014 at 8:44

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The link you point to actually says you can't do it like your answer... Have you really tried it?

@TactMayers what mistake are you pointing @?. You can try it and then inform

You can't write <string name="altfoo">@string/foo</string> and expect the string altfoo has the value foo. This will not work.

@TactMayers no it will work if you have <string name="foo">foo</string>. try it yourself

Alright... I misunderstood. If it's a direct reference it will work. But concatenation will not work.