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I use a clock-date-weather conky and I noticed that it is related to the file ~/.cache/weather.xml.

I am curious: was this file created by conky or by what other program? Is it present on the system by default? Can it be edited? Is it generated at a certain point and can be safely deleted?

What are its main purposes?

It has this content (but which is changed on disk by ~/.conkyrc or mayby my curl):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
        <rss version="2.0" xmlns:yweather="http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
            <channel>

<title>Yahoo! Weather - London, GB</title>
<link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weather/London__GB/*http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX0085_c.html</link>
<description>Yahoo! Weather for London, GB</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 9:49 am BST</lastBuildDate>
<ttl>60</ttl>
<yweather:location city="London" region=""   country="United Kingdom"/>
<yweather:units temperature="C" distance="km" pressure="mb" speed="km/h"/>
<yweather:wind chill="21"   direction="160"   speed="12.87" />
<yweather:atmosphere humidity="40"  visibility="9.99"  pressure="1015.92"  rising="0" />
<yweather:astronomy sunrise="4:53 am"   sunset="9:14 pm"/>
<image>
<title>Yahoo! Weather</title>
<width>142</width>
<height>18</height>
<link>http://weather.yahoo.com</link>
<url>http://l.yimg.com/a/i/brand/purplelogo//uh/us/news-wea.gif</url>
</image>
<item>
<title>Conditions for London, GB at 9:49 am BST</title>
<geo:lat>51.51</geo:lat>
<geo:long>-0.13</geo:long>
<link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weather/London__GB/*http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX0085_c.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 9:49 am BST</pubDate>
<yweather:condition  text="Fair"  code="34"  temp="21"  date="Fri, 10 Jul 2015 9:49 am BST" />
<description><![CDATA[
<img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/we/52/34.gif"/><br />
<b>Current Conditions:</b><br />
Fair, 21 C<BR />
<BR /><b>Forecast:</b><BR />
Fri - Mostly Sunny. High: 26 Low: 14<br />
Sat - Mostly Sunny. High: 27 Low: 15<br />
Sun - Showers. High: 22 Low: 14<br />
Mon - Cloudy. High: 24 Low: 16<br />
Tue - AM Showers. High: 23 Low: 12<br />
<br />
<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weather/London__GB/*http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX0085_c.html">Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather</a><BR/><BR/>
(provided by <a href="http://www.weather.com" >The Weather Channel</a>)<br/>
]]></description>
<yweather:forecast day="Fri" date="10 Jul 2015" low="14" high="26" text="Mostly Sunny" code="34" />
<yweather:forecast day="Sat" date="11 Jul 2015" low="15" high="27" text="Mostly Sunny" code="34" />
<yweather:forecast day="Sun" date="12 Jul 2015" low="14" high="22" text="Showers" code="11" />
<yweather:forecast day="Mon" date="13 Jul 2015" low="16" high="24" text="Cloudy" code="26" />
<yweather:forecast day="Tue" date="14 Jul 2015" low="12" high="23" text="AM Showers" code="39" />
<guid isPermaLink="false">UKXX0085_2015_07_14_7_00_BST</guid>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

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Was this file created by conky or by what other program?

It looks like it was created by the conky weather program. Type lsof ~/.cache/weather.xml to know which process is using this file.

Is it present on the system by default?

I'd say certainly not, it looks created by that conky program.

Can it be edited?

Sure, if you want it to display incorrect information...

Is it generated at a certain point and can be safely deleted? What are its main purposes?

It looks like a local cache for the weather forecast. If you delete it, the weather program will just fetch back the data from its provider, Yahoo! Weather.

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