Macro command for choosing which weapon to use

Is there any way to call on a weapons list from the character sheet? I want a drop down menu as a variable. For instance in the character sheet the character has two weapons, short sword and long sword. When activating the 2nd edition attack macro a prompt would pop up letting me choose which weapon I want. I don't want to make individual macros for each weapon and each character. Here's the base macro I'm using: &{template:2Eattack}{{title=@{selected|token_name} USES A @{selected|weapsize} SIZED @{selected|weaponname} TO ATTACK @{target|token_name}}}{{ac_hit=[[@{selected|ThAC0}-((D20?{ATTACK ROLL MODIFIER|+0})+(@{selected|attackadj})+(@{selected|strengthhit}*@{selected|strbonus})+(@{selected|dexmissile}*@{selected|dexbonus}))]]}}{{dmg_s=[[((@{selected|damsm}?{DAMAGE ROLL MODIFIER|+0}))+(@{selected|damadj})+(@{selected|strengthdmg}*@{selected|strbonus})]]}}{{dmg_l=[[((@{selected|daml}?{DAMAGE ROLL MODIFIER|+0}))+(@{selected|damadj})+(@{selected|strengthdmg}*@{selected|strbonus})]]}}{{ crit = Roll extra die for crit }} {{ fumble = You Fumble }} I figure there's some hidden table for what's in the character sheet.

The problem you'll run into is that any macro or drop-down list ability you reference in a Drop-Down query will include special characters   ( } , | ) that will interfere with the Drop-Down query.  Any macro you call has to have HTML ENTITY replacements or it won't work. I don't know about the 2e sheets, but I know sheets like Pathfinder have some hard-coded calls that you can't edit.