This have been done. It's called "ICU's messageformat". Though instead of having...

tinganho on Jan 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to Yo...

This have been done. It's called "ICU's messageformat". Though instead of having a general purpose language, the markup language is specially tailored for localization. One project that support ICU's messageformat is http://l10ns.org