Not knowing what your original XHTML looks like, I can only provide a general XSLT. In the following, I assume each row in a table either contains a table or a td which is the name (your tags may vary). This allows xsl:apply-templates to recursively call the table template.
<xsl:template match="table">
<node>
<xsl:for-each select="tr">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:for-each>
</node>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="td">
<name><xsl:value-of select="." /></name>
</xsl:template>
Here's a more complete example.
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