I'm new to umbraco and xslt and really struggling with this.  I'm trying to retrieve all event items for a site and display the two newest in a summary control.

I can retrieve the items but due to be retrieving items with a position less than 3 its ignoring the sort.

    <xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:variable name="rootNode" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node [@level = 1 and @nodeTypeAlias = 'Home']" />
 <xsl:variable name="Items" select="$rootNode/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'Event_Item']" />

 <div class="events-summary">
     <xsl:for-each select="$Items [position() &lt; 3]">
  <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />
  <div class="item">
   <div class="item-left">
    <img>
     <xsl:attribute name="src">
      <xsl:value-of select="data [@alias = 'primaryImage']"/>
       </xsl:attribute>
    </img>
   </div>
   <div class="item-right">                   
    <span class="date"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(@createDate, 'dd.MM.yy')"/></span><br />
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml(data [@alias = 'primaryContent']), 80, '...')" />
    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">Read More...</a>
   </div>
  </div>
        </xsl:for-each>
 <div class="clear">&nbsp;</div> 
 </div>
    </xsl:template>