SharePoint - How to use <RowLimit> in List Definition

Question

I'm creating a list view - programatically in XML. The title field contains year only (list is some kind of yearly report). As I learned that it is not so easy to filter this in CAML in <Where>, I would like to be able to display only 3 items with highest year.

Can I use <RowLimit>, or something similar in my ListDefinition's <View> section? Coupled with <OrderBy>, this would do the trick.

<Query>
 <OrderBy>
  <FieldRef Name='Title' Ascending='False' />
 </OrderBy>
<Query>

Answer 1

A view schema should look like below and you can change the 3 inside, Paged="FALSE" means "row limit is absolute and there is no link to see more items"

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd588460(v=office.11).aspx

<RowLimit Paged="FALSE">3</RowLimit>

<View BaseViewID="0" Type="HTML" MobileView="TRUE" TabularView="FALSE">
    <Toolbar Type="Standard" />
    <XslLink Default="TRUE">main.xsl</XslLink>
    <RowLimit Paged="TRUE">3</RowLimit>
    <ViewFields>
      <FieldRef Name="LinkTitleNoMenu"></FieldRef>
    </ViewFields>
    <Query>
      <OrderBy>
        <FieldRef  Name="Title" Ascending="False"></FieldRef>
      </OrderBy>
    </Query>
  </View>