How to code Umbraco XSLT to retrieve Nodes from unrelated tree

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Published on 2012-09-24T01:23:39Z Indexed on 2012/09/24 3:51 UTC
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I have an Umbraco site for personal use that I want to also use as a blog.

I'm trying to put together the XSLT to grab the top three posts from the nodes in the Blog tree (node id = 1063) and display these on a tab page that is incorporated into the front page.

The following image illustrates the node hierarchy:

Umbraco site nodes

With my extremely limited appreciation of XSLT, I'm unable to grab the node ID of the "Blog" id and take the 3 pages below that to display in the "Top Posts" part of my site which is found under the "Frontpage Tabs" node. All the examples I find work with the "current page", which is typically the top-level node, "Personal Site".

How should I accomplish this?

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