Heh, that was the first thing I did when Opera 6 was released! :)

Basically, I grab the Newest Nodes XML ticker, munge it with a XSL stylesheet (with xsltproc, from the GnomeXML lib) to make it look like a clean RDF, and feed it to Opera's panel displayer. I update the page every 15mn or so.

If I remember correctly, there was only a problem with namespacess in the XML output by PM which prevented it to be directly understood by Opera's panel displayer.

Crontab entry

/usr/bin/lynx -source \
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=newest%20nodes%20xml%20generato
+r | \
/usr/bin/xsltproc /usr/local/apache/htdocs/stylesheets/headline.xsl - 
+\
>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/headline.rdf
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The headline.xsl stylesheet

It's a quick hack, and probably not the best way to do it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="NODE">
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt; 22"><!-- position() is weird  -->
    <item>
        <link><xsl:text>http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=</xsl:text><
+xsl:value-of select="@node_id" /></link>
        <title><xsl:value-of select="." /></title>
      </item>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">
    <rdf:RDF
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/">
    <channel>
        <title>Perl Monks</title>
    <link>http://perlmonks.org/</link>
    <description>Your site for all that is Perl</description>
</channel>
<image>
    <title>Perl Monks</title>
    <url>http://perlmonks.org/images/perlmonkssm.gif</url>
    <link>http://perlmonks.org/</link>
</image>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
    </rdf:RDF>
</xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="INFO" />
  <xsl:template match="AUTHOR" />
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Opera's Panel

Opera's panel display

-- stefp