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"some" and "every" are not opposites

The instructions "some" and "every" are not opposites of each other. In some cases they may provide the same boolean value.

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <xxx>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="if (some $a in (1 to 20) satisfies $a>0) then 1 else 0"/>
                  </xxx>
                  <yyy>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="if (every $a in (1 to 20) satisfies $a>0) then 1 else 0"/>
                  </yyy>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>
XML

      <aaa/>
Output

      <xxx>1</xxx>
      <yyy>1</yyy>


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