Is there someway I could store the results of testing so that I could
use it while processing each list?

Maybe you can store the results in a variable.
e.g. if all tests give a boolean result, than you might construct a variable 'test-result' containing 'YYNYNNNYYYNYY'.

You could then recall the result of these test with:
<xsl:if test="substring($test-result,position(),1)='Y'">

regards,
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