Take a look at this post
If you use the SiteMapDataSource you can ignore the root node to be rendered by setting the ShowStartingNode property to false. If you do so, the node under the top node will be displayed, you can also use the StartingNodeOffset and StartingNodeUrl to specify from which nodes you should display.
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