NEWBIE: different compile-commands for different fiel types (cc, xml)

[Johannes Kastl]

Hello everyone,
Im kind of a newbie to emacs, or more to configuration emacs. I have 
been using emacs for quite some time, and now I need to setup the 
compile-command.
The background is that I am compiling .cc files, and also .xml files 
at the moment. And I am proud that I got it working to specify my 
own complie-command in the settings. But it is only one, for the 
other filetype I have to change it everytime, which is "kind of 
uncomfortable". So, is there a way to set the compile-command to 
"make whatever" for .cc files and to "make anotherthing" for .xml files?
Adding local variables in xml files dont work for me, since it 
doesnt compile afterwards, cos the source code contains "non-xml" text.

Has anybody got an idea how to solve this, or is this just not 
possible with my emacs?

Thanks in advance,

Johannes

P.S. I am running emacs on a suse 8.2 linux, emacs is GNU Emacs 
21.2.1 (i586-suse-linux).