I found an excellent example XSLT that allows you to create a paginated list of child nodes over on Tim Geyssens “nibble” blog, and I’ve modified it ever so slightly to stop the numerical index rendering if the pagecount is less than 2- so thought I would re-post it!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY nbsp "&amp;amp;amp;#x00A0;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">

  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">

    <xsl:variable name="recordsPerPage" select="/macro/recordsPerPage"/>
    <xsl:variable name="pageNumber" >
      <xsl:choose>
        <!-- first page -->
        <xsl:when test="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('page') <= 0 or string(umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('page')) = '' or string(umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('page')) = 'NaN'">0</xsl:when>
        <!-- what was passed in -->
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('page')"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>

    </xsl:variable> &amp;amp;amp;nbsp;

    <xsl:variable name="numberOfRecords" select="count($currentPage/node)"/>

    <!-- The fun starts here -->
    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
        <xsl:if test="position() > $recordsPerPage * number($pageNumber) and
position() <= number($recordsPerPage * number($pageNumber) +
$recordsPerPage )">
          <li>
            <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
              <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>

            </a>
          </li>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>

    <xsl:if test="$pageNumber > 0">
      <a href="?page={$pageNumber -1}">previous </a>
    </xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="($numberOfRecords > $recordsPerPage)">
    <xsl:call-template name="for.loop">
      <xsl:with-param name="i">1</xsl:with-param>
      <xsl:with-param name="page" select="$pageNumber +1"></xsl:with-param>
      <xsl:with-param name="count" select="ceiling(count($currentPage/node)div $recordsPerPage)"></xsl:with-param>
    </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>

    <xsl:if test="(($pageNumber +1 ) * $recordsPerPage) < ($numberOfRecords)">
      <a href="?page={$pageNumber +1}">next</a>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="for.loop">

    <xsl:param name="i"/>
    <xsl:param name="count"/>
    <xsl:param name="page"/>
    <xsl:if test="$i <= $count - 1">

      <xsl:if test="$page != $i">
        <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/@id)}?page={$i - 1}" >

          <xsl:value-of select="$i" />
        </a>
      </xsl:if>

      <xsl:if test="$page = $i">

        <xsl:value-of select="$i" />

      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:if test="$i <= $count - 1">
      <xsl:call-template name="for.loop">
        <xsl:with-param name="i">
          <xsl:value-of select="$i + 1"/>
        </xsl:with-param>
        <xsl:with-param name="count">
          <xsl:value-of select="$count"/>
        </xsl:with-param>
        <xsl:with-param name="page">
          <xsl:value-of select="$page"/>
        </xsl:with-param>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Start by adding a new reference to your project; System.Services.Web.

The SyndicationFeed class holds all the data about your feed and lets you spit everything out in a number of different formats (RSS2.0, ATOM1.0)- each item in the feed is held in a generic list of SyndicationItem objects. As I work for a publishers, I was creating an RSS feed of coming soon books so I added an extension method to my book class- ToSyndicationItem();

public static SyndicationItem ToSyndicationItem(this Book book)
{
    return new SyndicationItem(book.CoverTitle + " " + book.Subtitle, book.Description, new Uri(book.GetURL()))
    {
        Summary = new TextSyndicationContent(book.DescriptionShort, TextSyndicationContentKind.Plaintext),
        Id = book.Id.ToString(),
        LastUpdatedTime = book.InsertedDate
    };
}

This allows me to use all the standard select methods I already in my book class, to also populate my RSS feed. So to create the feed all I need do in my RSS.ashx handler file is;

List<Book> books = Book.GetBookPublishedBetween(DateTime.Now,DateTime.Now.AddDays( int.Parse( GroupConstants.ComingSoonMaxDays)));
List<SyndicationItem> syndicationItems = new List<SyndicationItem>();
foreach (Book book in books)
    syndicationItems.Add(book.ToSyndicationItem());

feed = new SyndicationFeed(syndicationItems)
{
    Title = new TextSyndicationContent("Coming Soon Titles"),
    Description = new TextSyndicationContent("Forthcoming publications."),
    BaseUri = new Uri(LinkHelper.GetBaseUrl())
};

var output = new StringWriter();
var writer = new XmlTextWriter(output);

new Rss20FeedFormatter(feed).WriteTo(writer);

context.Response.ContentType = "application/rss+xml";
context.Response.Write(output.ToString());

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="html"></xsl:output>
    <xsl:template match="rss/channel/item">
    <li>
      <a href="{link}" title="{title}">
        <xsl:value-of select="title" />
      </a>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="description" />
      </p>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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    <asp:ListView ID="RSSList" runat="server" DataSourceID="RSSData">
        <LayoutTemplate>
            <ul>
                <li id="itemPlaceholder" runat="server" />
            </ul>
        </LayoutTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <li><h2>
                <%#XPath("title") %>
            </h2>

            <%#XPath("author") %>
            <a href='<%#XPath("link") %>' title=''>View Original Post</a>
            </li>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:ListView>
    <asp:XmlDataSource
        ID="RSSData"
        runat="server"
        DataFile="http://www.shawson.co.uk/codeblog/feed/"
        XPath="rss/channel/item">
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            XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer( typeof( Hachette.Checkout.Vista.Stock.ProductStockLiteResultResponse ) );
            StringWriter w = new StringWriter(sb_xml);
            s.Serialize(w, ws_response);
            w.Close();
            Response.Write("<!-- Response = " + sb_xml + " -->");

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