No, unlike in a lot of other languages, XSLT variables cannot change their values after they are created. You can however, avoid extraneous code with a technique like this:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="mapping">
<item key="1" v1="A" v2="B" />
<item key="2" v1="X" v2="Y" />
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="mappingNode"
select="document('')//xsl:variable[@name = 'mapping']" />
<xsl:template match="....">
<xsl:variable name="testVariable" select="'1'" />
<xsl:variable name="values" select="$mappingNode/item[@key = $testVariable]" />
<xsl:variable name="variable1" select="$values/@v1" />
<xsl:variable name="variable2" select="$values/@v2" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
In fact, once you've got the values
variable, you may not even need separate variable1
and variable2
variables. You could just use $values/@v1
and $values/@v2
instead.