Here is the paging section of my xsl file:

<xsl:template match="/udt:UserDefinedTable">
    <xsl:variable name="currentData" select="udt:Data" />
    <xsl:variable name="from">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$paging">
          <xsl:value-of select="$paging * number($param_page) - $paging" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="to">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$paging">
          <xsl:value-of select="$paging * number($param_page) +1" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:value-of select="count($currentData)+1" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:if test="$currentData">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentData" mode="list">
        <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from" />
        <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$to" />
      </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:if test="$paging">
      <xsl:call-template name="renderPaging">
        <xsl:with-param name="maxPages" select="ceiling(count($currentData) div $paging)" />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="pagingSinglePages">
    <!--renders paging links-->
    <xsl:param name="pageNumber" select="1" />
    <xsl:param name="maxPages" select="ceiling(count(//udt:Data) div $paging)" />
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="number($param_page)=$pageNumber">
        <span class="NormalDisabled"><xsl:value-of select="$pageNumber" /></span>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <a href="?{$prefix_param}_page={$pageNumber}" class="CommandButton">
          <xsl:value-of select="$pageNumber" />
        </a>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  <xsl:if test="$pageNumber &lt; $maxPages"><xsl:call-template name="pagingSinglePages">
    <xsl:with-param name="pageNumber" select="$pageNumber +1" />
    <xsl:with-param name="maxPages" select="$maxPages" /></xsl:call-template></xsl:if></xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="renderPaging">
    <xsl:param name="maxPages" select="ceiling(count(//udt:Data) div $paging)" />
    <xsl:variable name="previous" select="number($param_page) - 1" />
    <xsl:variable name="next" select="number($param_page) + 1" />
    <table class="PagingTable">
      <tr>
        <td class="Normal" align="Left">
          <xsl:value-of select="//udt:Context/udt:LocalizedString_Page" />&#160;<xsl:value-of select="number($param_page)" />&#160;<xsl:value-of select="//udt:Context/udt:LocalizedString_Of" />&#160;<xsl:value-of select="$maxPages" /></td>
        <td class="Normal" align="Right">
          
  <xsl:choose><xsl:when test="number($param_page)&gt;1"><a href="?{$prefix_param}_page={$previous}" class="CommandButton">
  <xsl:value-of select="//udt:Context/udt:LocalizedString_Previous" /></a></xsl:when><xsl:otherwise>
   <span class="NormalDisabled"><xsl:value-of select="//udt:Context/udt:LocalizedString_Previous" /></span></xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose> 
          
  <xsl:variable name="startpage"><xsl:choose><xsl:when test="number($param_page)&gt;5">
  <xsl:value-of select="number($param_page) -4" /></xsl:when><xsl:otherwise>1</xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose></xsl:variable>
          <xsl:variable name="endpage">
  <xsl:choose><xsl:when test="$startpage+9&gt;$maxPages"><xsl:value-of select="$maxPages" /></xsl:when><xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:value-of select="$startpage +9" /></xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose></xsl:variable>
          <xsl:call-template name="pagingSinglePages"><xsl:with-param name="pageNumber" select="$startpage" />
            <xsl:with-param name="maxPages" select="$endpage" /></xsl:call-template><xsl:choose><xsl:when test="number($param_page)&lt;$maxPages">
              <a href="?{$prefix_param}_page={$next}" class="CommandButton">
                <xsl:value-of select="//udt:Context/udt:LocalizedString_Next" /></a></xsl:when><xsl:otherwise>
                  <span class="NormalDisabled">
                    <xsl:value-of select="//udt:Context/udt:LocalizedString_Next" /></span></xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose> 
   
  </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </xsl:template> 

Thank you Stefan!

Great!  I had been trying to place the characters within the "value-of select" and I wasn't escaping them.

If I could ask a follow up. How would I eliminate "previous" when on page 1 and "next" when on the last page?

Thank you very much for your help.

Richard English