Ok, this is either tricky or stupidly simple.

It started in this thread: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/xslt/23108-List-of-all-documents-from-all-descendant-pages

Which i got help with and the code worked perfectly. The biggest, and only problem with it now is limiting the number of nodes shown. Problem is, i cant get it to work properly. The thing is i dont know how xsl:templates work so i dont know where and how to limit the number of items. I once got it working, but it looked like it limited the number of document types and not the number of listed items.

For good measure here is the code again:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <ul class="list">
    <!-- Process ALL descendants of $currentPage -->
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage/descendant::*[@isDoc][not(umbracoNaviHide = 1)]">
      <xsl:sort select="articleDate[normalize-space()]" order="descending" />
      <xsl:sort select="@updateDate[not(normalize-space(../articleDate))]" order="descending" />
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </ul>
</xsl:template>

<!-- Template for specific DocumentTypes -->
<xsl:template match="ArtikelStudier
 | ArtikelStudiejob | Eksamen | ArtikelLegatsoegning | ArtikelUdIVerden |
 ArtikelOekonomi | ArtikelVelvre | ArtikelTop5">
  <li>
    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
      <!-- Take first image (if any) -->
      <xsl:apply-templates select="outputPictures[1]" />
      <!-- Article heading and teaser text-->
      <h5><xsl:value-of select="articleHeading"/></h5>
      <p class="teaser"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(artikel-Teasertekst,70,'...')"/></p>
    </a>
  </li>
</xsl:template>

<!-- Template for thumbnail image -->
<xsl:template match="outputPictures">
  <img src="/ImageGen.ashx?image={DAMP[@fullMedia]/mediaItem/Image/umbracoFile}&amp;width=125&amp;height=70" width="125" height="70" />
</xsl:template>

<!-- Template for all non-matched DocumentTypes -->
<xsl:template match="*[@isDoc]" priority="-1">
        <!-- Suppress output... -->
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

That is the code right now, and this is how i think it would work:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <ul class="list">
    <!-- Process ALL descendants of $currentPage -->
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= 5">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage/descendant::*[@isDoc][not(umbracoNaviHide = 1)]">
      <xsl:sort select="articleDate[normalize-space()]" order="descending" />
      <xsl:sort select="@updateDate[not(normalize-space(../articleDate))]" order="descending" />
    </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:if>
  </ul>
</xsl:template>

But that obviously doesnt work with where the if statement is.

So, hopefully you guys understand my predicament, and hopefully the solution is simple enough. Thank you for your time.