Fwd: Aberrant Alphabetizing.

What I think you should be doing is sorting the <book> child nodes of whatever
parent they have by title, something like:

<xsl:template match="insert-parent-of-book-here">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="book">
    <xsl:sort select="title"/>
  </xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

Think of it as building a list of nodes to process using <xsl:apply-templates
select="..."/>, and then sorting them using <xsl:sort/>