Writing an XSLT Extensions

About 20 times on every page I use the following
xsl:value-of select = "page_content/dictionary/row[language=lang]/SOME_LABEL"
Where SOME_LABEL is the name of a localized label to go on the html page.
I want to shortcut this becuase I am lazy and I thought of an XSLTExtension like
xsl:dictionary select="subject"
but I cant see how to do this, all the xslt classes in the xmlparser are private so I cant extend them or reference them or duplicate them without practicaly rewriting the whole processor...
Any ideas on how I might achieve this..
Rob
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I guess its rare for the data to be repeated in a single stylesheet.
Basically its all the static text on a normal page, we do all our pages in four languages and use a "dictionary" to place the static text into the page.
When we did this in .ASP we just had a single function that loaded the all the values into individual variables, fast and effecient.
There isnt such an equivalent in XSLT from what I can see.
Will look into keys though..
Tks
Rob

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