Recipe showing how to extract the values from a Table Column, sort them and produce a unique list

Sample Table

Title	Author
The Parenticide Club	Bierce, Ambrose
Paris as It Was and as It Is	Blagdon, Francis W.
Early Kings of Norway	Carlyle, Thomas
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson	Collins, John Churton
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis	Cooke, George Willis
The Parish Register	Crabbe, George
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis	Curtis, George William
The Parish Clerk (1907)	Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
The Parent's Assistant	Edgeworth, Maria
Early Plays Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans	Ibsen, Henrik
Parish Papers	Macleod, Norman
Early Plays Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans	Orbeck, Anders
The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White)	Rutherford, Mark
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations	Sayce, Archibald Henry
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Audio Book	Wharton, Edith

Annotated XSLT

%XSLTSTART{id="%WEB%" benchmark="off" debug="off" }% 
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:set="http://exslt.org/sets"
  extension-element-prefixes="set">

 <xsl:template match="/twiki">

 <ol>
 <xsl:for-each select="set:distinct(/twiki/web/topic/data/tables/table/row[position()>1]/field[1])">

          <xsl:sort select="."/>

          <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
 </xsl:for-each>
 </ol>

  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>
%XSLTEND%

XSLT Demo: Ordered List

%XSLTSTART{id="System" benchmark="off" debug="off" }% <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:set="http://exslt.org/sets" extension-element-prefixes="set">