Data Paging with XSLT

Does anyone know the easiest way to pull off data paging in XSLT? I thought that they would have a built in function for it, but they don’t seem to. There seems to be a couple of ways to go about it, but they also seem more complicated then they need to be. Basically, I want my XSLT to only pull the first 3 records from an XML file. Any suggestions or links? Thanks in advance.