Text box validations on a APEX page

Hi Gurus -
Please help me with the following issue:
There are 2 columns in a SQL report (assume 10 rows in this report). First column is an user defined attribute and second column has a text box for each user defined attribute. User can enter numbers 1 thru 10 in the text boxes for each attribute which will display these attributes on some other page in the sequence which is entered in these text boxes.
How do I make sure user enters the number 1 thru 10 in these text boxes and enters without duplication? And how can we do the same if the number of rows is not contstant?
Please let me know your inputs.
Thanks,
-Seenu

Please provide your expertise to how to tackle this issue.
Thanks.

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