An additional clarification: I'd like to list the title of each post followed by a very short snippet from the post. I will create a property for the blog post document type called "intro" to contain the snippet.

Thanks.

Were you able to get this figured out?

Hi Jason,

Below is the XSLT I ended up with. You'll see that I hard-coded the node of my blog root - GetXmlNodeById(1174)

It's working well.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
        version="1.0"
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
        xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
        xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:tagsLib="urn:tagsLib" xmlns:BlogLibrary="urn:BlogLibrary"
        exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets tagsLib BlogLibrary ">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="numberOfPosts" select="3"/>

<xsl:variable name="blogPosts" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1174)/descendant-or-self::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'Blog']//node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'BlogPost']" />

<xsl:template match="/">
<h2>Related News and Events:</h2>
<ul class="blog-post-list">
<xsl:for-each select="$blogPosts">
<xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />
<xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $numberOfPosts">
 <xsl:call-template name="showpost">
  <xsl:with-param name="post" select="."/>
 </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
<!--
<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1174)/node //node[@nodeTypeAlias = 'BlogPost']">
<xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />
        <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
         <h2>Related News and Events:</h2>
        </xsl:if>
        <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $numberOfPosts">
                <p><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a></p>
        <xsl:value-of select="@excerpt"/>
        </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
 -->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="showpost">
 <xsl:param name="post"/>
 <li class="blog-post-excerpt">
  <h4><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($post/@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="$post/@nodeName"/></a></h4>
  <p> <!-- class="entry" -->
   <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml($post/data [@alias = 'excerpt']), 400, '...')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
  <br /><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($post/@id)}" title="Permalink to {$post/@nodeName}">Read More...</a> <span class="comment-link"><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($post/@id)}#respond">Post a comment</a></span></p>

 </li>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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