"""Parse Old Bailey Online XML (v7.2, figshare 10.15131/shef.data.4775434.v2) into one row per trial, with typed persons, offences, verdicts, punishments and the defendant→offence→verdict→punishment joins; one row per session; one row per Ordinary's Account. Verbatim TEI is kept in an `xml` column. Usage: python parse_obo.py [--limit N] [--stats] Conventions (see dataset card): - persons.type is null when the source assigns no role (part-1 names tagged by GATE without a role). - name = the person's own surface text (nested excluded); given/surname/gender/age/occupation/place/aliases come from children and persNameOccupation / persNamePlace / nameAlias joins (first value wins for interps — no repeated interp types were found in the corpus sample). - inside text: joined without a space (hyphenation-style breaks are the majority) unless the break sits between a word character and an upper-case letter, where a space is inserted. - punishments: attached via defendantPunishment joins file-wide (part-1 sentences sit in a separate punishmentSummary div; a few joins point across trial divs — kept as the source has them, and the punishment row records the trial div it was found in). An in-trial punishment with no join anywhere is kept with defendant_ids = []. - charges: criminalCharge joins; target ids that resolve to nothing in the trial are kept in `unresolved_ids`. - sessions.summary_items: every outside a trialAccount div (offence/verdict/punishment/alias/occupation/crimeDate) with its category, text, containing div and joined ids — the 1670s–80s sessions record outcomes in supplementaryMaterial, not trials. """ import re, sys, json, collections from pathlib import Path from lxml import etree import polars as pl ROOT = Path(sys.argv[1]); OUT = Path(sys.argv[2]); OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) LIMIT = int(sys.argv[sys.argv.index("--limit") + 1]) if "--limit" in sys.argv else None STATS = "--stats" in sys.argv STRICT = etree.XMLParser(huge_tree=True) LENIENT = etree.XMLParser(recover=True, huge_tree=True) WS = re.compile(r"\s+") ENC_RE = re.compile(rb'^<\?xml[^>]*encoding\s*=\s*["\']([A-Za-z0-9._-]+)["\']') stats = collections.Counter(); warnings = [] def read_xml(path): """Return (root, verbatim_text). Decode with the declared encoding; parse strictly, fall back to recovery + warn.""" raw = path.read_bytes() m = ENC_RE.match(raw[:200]); enc = m.group(1).decode() if m else "utf-8" if raw.startswith(b"\xef\xbb\xbf"): enc = "utf-8-sig" elif raw.startswith((b"\xff\xfe", b"\xfe\xff")): enc = "utf-16" try: text = raw.decode(enc) # verbatim column must be lossless: no errors="replace" except (UnicodeDecodeError, LookupError) as e: raise SystemExit(f"{path.name}: cannot decode with declared encoding {enc!r}: {e}") try: root = etree.fromstring(raw, STRICT) except etree.XMLSyntaxError as e: root = etree.fromstring(raw, LENIENT); warnings.append(f"{path.name}: recovered parse ({str(e)[:80]})"); stats["recovered_parse"] += 1 return root, text def norm(s): return WS.sub(" ", s or "").strip() def _collect(el, parts, skip_tag=None): if el.tag == "lb": parts.append("\x00") elif el.text: parts.append(el.text) for c in el: if not (skip_tag is not None and c.tag == skip_tag): _collect(c, parts, skip_tag) if c.tail: parts.append(c.tail) def text_of(el, skip_tag=None): parts = []; _collect(el, parts, skip_tag) s = "".join(parts) s = re.sub(r"(\w)\x00(?=[A-Z])", r"\1 ", s).replace("\x00", "") return norm(s) def interps(el): d = {} for i in el.findall("interp"): d.setdefault(i.get("type"), i.get("value")) return d def parse_person(p): d = interps(p) has_nested = p.find(".//persName") is not None name = text_of(p, skip_tag="persName") if (has_nested or not name) and (d.get("given") or d.get("surname")): name = norm(f"{d.get('given') or ''} {d.get('surname') or ''}") if not name: name = text_of(p) return {"id": p.get("id"), "type": (p.get("type").replace("Name", "") if p.get("type") else None), "name": name, "given": d.get("given"), "surname": d.get("surname"), "gender": d.get("gender"), "age": d.get("age"), "occupation": d.get("occupation"), "place": None, "aliases": []} def parse_rs(rs): d = interps(rs) return {**d, "id": rs.get("id"), "text": text_of(rs)} trials, oas, sessions = [], [], [] def index_file(root): """File-level indexes: rs by id, persons by id (enriched from joins), places, joins by member id.""" all_rs = {rs.get("id"): (rs, parse_rs(rs)) for rs in root.iter("rs") if rs.get("id")} all_place = {x.get("id"): text_of(x) for x in root.iter("placeName") if x.get("id")} pers_el = [p for p in root.iter("persName")] all_pers = {p.get("id"): parse_person(p) for p in pers_el if p.get("id")} joins = collections.defaultdict(list); by_member = collections.defaultdict(list) for j in root.iter("join"): res, targets = j.get("result"), j.get("targets", "").split() stats[f"join:{res}"] += 1; joins[res].append(targets) for t in targets: by_member[t].append((res, targets)) for pid, per in all_pers.items(): # enrich persons from joins, once, file-wide for res, targets in by_member.get(pid, []): others = [t for t in targets if t != pid] if res == "persNameOccupation" and per["occupation"] is None: for t in others: if t in all_rs: per["occupation"] = all_rs[t][1]["text"] elif res == "persNamePlace" and per["place"] is None: for t in others: if t in all_place: per["place"] = all_place[t] elif res == "nameAlias": for t in others: if t in all_rs and all_rs[t][1]["text"] not in per["aliases"]: per["aliases"].append(all_rs[t][1]["text"]) return all_rs, all_place, all_pers, pers_el, joins, by_member def parse_session(path): root, raw_text = read_xml(path) if root is None: stats["unparseable"] += 1; return session_id = path.stem all_rs, all_place, all_pers, pers_el, joins, by_member = index_file(root) rs_div = {} for rs in root.iter("rs"): if rs.get("id"): anc = next(rs.iterancestors("div1"), None); rs_div[rs.get("id")] = anc.get("id") if anc is not None else None body = root.find(".//body") div_types = collections.Counter(d.get("type") for d in root.iter("div1")) summary_items = [] # rs elements outside trialAccount divs (supplementaryMaterial / punishmentSummary / no div): early sessions record outcomes here for rs in root.iter("rs"): anc = next(rs.iterancestors("div1"), None) if rs.get("id") and (anc is None or anc.get("type") != "trialAccount"): d = all_rs[rs.get("id")][1] linked = sorted({t for res, targets in by_member.get(rs.get("id"), []) for t in targets if t != rs.get("id")}) cat = d.get("offenceCategory") or d.get("verdictCategory") or d.get("punishmentCategory") sub = d.get("offenceSubcategory") or d.get("verdictSubcategory") or d.get("punishmentSubcategory") summary_items.append({"id": rs.get("id"), "type": rs.get("type"), "category": cat, "subcategory": sub, "text": d["text"], "found_in": anc.get("id") if anc is not None else None, "linked_ids": linked}) stats[f"summary_item:{rs.get('type')}"] += 1 sessions.append({"summary_items": summary_items, "session_id": session_id, "date": session_id[:8], "part": 1 if session_id[:8] <= "18341024" else 2, "text": text_of(body) if body is not None else text_of(root), "xml": raw_text, "n_trials": div_types.get("trialAccount", 0), "div_types": json.dumps(dict(div_types)), "persons": [all_pers[p.get("id")] if p.get("id") else parse_person(p) for p in pers_el], "places": [text_of(x) for x in root.iter("placeName")], "obo_url": f"https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name={session_id}"}) for div in root.iter("div1"): stats[f"div1:{div.get('type')}"] += 1 if div.get("type") != "trialAccount": continue tid = div.get("id"); di = interps(div) persons = [all_pers[p.get("id")] if p.get("id") else parse_person(p) for p in div.iter("persName")] def_ids = [p["id"] for p in persons if p["type"] == "defendant" and p["id"]] # source order def_set = set(def_ids) offences = [parse_rs(rs) for rs in div.iter("rs") if rs.get("type") == "offenceDescription"] verdicts = [parse_rs(rs) for rs in div.iter("rs") if rs.get("type") == "verdictDescription"] off_ids = {o["id"] for o in offences}; ver_ids = {v["id"] for v in verdicts} for o in offences: o["victim_ids"] = []; o["crime_date"] = None; o["place"] = None for res, targets in by_member.get(o["id"], []): others = [t for t in targets if t != o["id"]] if res == "offenceVictim": o["victim_ids"] += others elif res == "offencePlace": for t in others: if t in all_place: o["place"] = all_place[t] elif res == "offenceCrimeDate": for t in others: if t in all_rs: o["crime_date"] = all_rs[t][1]["text"] charges = [] for targets in joins.get("criminalCharge", []): if not any(t in def_set for t in targets): continue unresolved = [t for t in targets if t not in def_set and t not in off_ids and t not in ver_ids] if unresolved: stats["charge_unresolved_targets"] += 1 charges.append({"defendant_ids": [t for t in targets if t in def_set], "offence_ids": [t for t in targets if t in off_ids], "verdict_ids": [t for t in targets if t in ver_ids], "unresolved_ids": unresolved}) pun_rows = {} for d_id in def_ids: # deterministic: defendant source order for res, targets in by_member.get(d_id, []): if res != "defendantPunishment": continue for t in targets: if t in all_rs and all_rs[t][0].get("type") == "punishmentDescription": row = pun_rows.setdefault(t, {**all_rs[t][1], "defendant_ids": [], "found_in": rs_div.get(t)}) if d_id not in row["defendant_ids"]: row["defendant_ids"].append(d_id) if rs_div.get(t) not in (None, tid): stats["punishment_cross_trial"] += 1 for rs in div.iter("rs"): # every punishment whose text lives in this trial, with whatever defendants the joins name (possibly another trial's) pid = rs.get("id") if rs.get("type") == "punishmentDescription" and pid and pid not in pun_rows: joined = [t for res, targets in by_member.get(pid, []) if res == "defendantPunishment" for t in targets if t != pid and t in all_pers] pun_rows[pid] = {**parse_rs(rs), "defendant_ids": joined, "found_in": tid} if not joined: stats["punishment_unjoined"] += 1 elif not any(j in def_set for j in joined): stats["punishment_text_here_defendant_elsewhere"] += 1 trials.append({ "trial_id": tid, "session_id": session_id, "date": di.get("date") or session_id[:8], "part": 1 if session_id[:8] <= "18341024" else 2, "text": text_of(div), "xml": etree.tostring(div, encoding="unicode"), "n_defendants": len(def_ids), "persons": persons, "offences": [{"id": o["id"], "category": o.get("offenceCategory"), "subcategory": o.get("offenceSubcategory"), "text": o["text"], "crime_date": o["crime_date"], "place": o["place"], "victim_ids": o["victim_ids"]} for o in offences], "verdicts": [{"id": v["id"], "category": v.get("verdictCategory"), "subcategory": v.get("verdictSubcategory"), "text": v["text"]} for v in verdicts], "punishments": [{"id": p["id"], "category": p.get("punishmentCategory"), "subcategory": p.get("punishmentSubcategory"), "text": p["text"], "defendant_ids": p["defendant_ids"], "found_in": p["found_in"]} for p in pun_rows.values()], "charges": charges, "places": [text_of(x) for x in div.iter("placeName")], "obo_url": f"https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div={tid}"}) stats["trials"] += 1 def parse_oa(path): root, raw_text = read_xml(path) if root is None: stats["unparseable_oa"] += 1; return _, _, all_pers, pers_el, _, _ = index_file(root) div = root.find(".//div0"); di = interps(div) if div is not None else {} body = root.find(".//body") oas.append({"oa_id": path.stem, "date": di.get("date") or path.stem[2:10], "text": text_of(body) if body is not None else text_of(root), "xml": raw_text, "persons": [all_pers[p.get("id")] if p.get("id") else parse_person(p) for p in pers_el], "places": [text_of(x) for x in root.iter("placeName")], "obo_url": f"https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name={path.stem}"}) stats["oa"] += 1 files = sorted((ROOT / "sessionsPapers").glob("*.xml")) if LIMIT: files = files[::max(1, len(files) // LIMIT)][:LIMIT] for i, f in enumerate(files): parse_session(f) if i % 200 == 0: print(f"{i}/{len(files)} {f.name} trials so far {stats['trials']}", flush=True) oa_files = sorted((ROOT / "ordinarysAccounts").glob("*.xml")) if LIMIT: oa_files = oa_files[:max(2, LIMIT // 5)] for f in oa_files: parse_oa(f) used = set() for t in trials: # source quirk: a few supplementary items share an id (e.g. s16980504-1) — suffix collision-safely and report base = t["trial_id"] if base in used: k = 2 while f"{base}-dup{k}" in used: k += 1 t["trial_id"] = f"{base}-dup{k}"; stats["dup_trial_id"] += 1; warnings.append(f"duplicate trial id {base} -> {t['trial_id']}") used.add(t["trial_id"]) PERSON = pl.Struct({"id": pl.Utf8, "type": pl.Utf8, "name": pl.Utf8, "given": pl.Utf8, "surname": pl.Utf8, "gender": pl.Utf8, "age": pl.Utf8, "occupation": pl.Utf8, "place": pl.Utf8, "aliases": pl.List(pl.Utf8)}) SCHEMA = { "trial_id": pl.Utf8, "session_id": pl.Utf8, "date": pl.Utf8, "part": pl.Int8, "text": pl.Utf8, "xml": pl.Utf8, "n_defendants": pl.Int32, "persons": pl.List(PERSON), "offences": pl.List(pl.Struct({"id": pl.Utf8, "category": pl.Utf8, "subcategory": pl.Utf8, "text": pl.Utf8, "crime_date": pl.Utf8, "place": pl.Utf8, "victim_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8)})), "verdicts": pl.List(pl.Struct({"id": pl.Utf8, "category": pl.Utf8, "subcategory": pl.Utf8, "text": pl.Utf8})), "punishments": pl.List(pl.Struct({"id": pl.Utf8, "category": pl.Utf8, "subcategory": pl.Utf8, "text": pl.Utf8, "defendant_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "found_in": pl.Utf8})), "charges": pl.List(pl.Struct({"defendant_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "offence_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "verdict_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "unresolved_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8)})), "places": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "obo_url": pl.Utf8, } df = pl.from_dicts(trials, schema=SCHEMA); assert df["trial_id"].n_unique() == df.height df.write_parquet(OUT / "trials.parquet", compression="zstd") oa = pl.from_dicts(oas, schema={"oa_id": pl.Utf8, "date": pl.Utf8, "text": pl.Utf8, "xml": pl.Utf8, "persons": pl.List(PERSON), "places": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "obo_url": pl.Utf8}) oa.write_parquet(OUT / "ordinarys_accounts.parquet", compression="zstd") ses = pl.from_dicts(sessions, schema={"session_id": pl.Utf8, "date": pl.Utf8, "part": pl.Int8, "text": pl.Utf8, "xml": pl.Utf8, "n_trials": pl.Int32, "div_types": pl.Utf8, "persons": pl.List(PERSON), "places": pl.List(pl.Utf8), "summary_items": pl.List(pl.Struct({"id": pl.Utf8, "type": pl.Utf8, "category": pl.Utf8, "subcategory": pl.Utf8, "text": pl.Utf8, "found_in": pl.Utf8, "linked_ids": pl.List(pl.Utf8)})), "obo_url": pl.Utf8}) ses.write_parquet(OUT / "sessions.parquet", compression="zstd") print("\nwrote", df.shape, "trials;", ses.shape, "sessions;", oa.shape, "OA") (OUT / "parse_warnings.txt").write_text("\n".join(warnings)) if warnings: print(f"{len(warnings)} parse warnings -> {OUT / 'parse_warnings.txt'}") if STATS: for k, v in sorted(stats.items()): print(f" {k:32s} {v}") g = df.filter(pl.col("verdicts").list.eval(pl.element().struct.field("category") == "guilty").list.any()) print("guilty trials:", g.height, "| guilty with 0 punishments:", g.filter(pl.col("punishments").list.len() == 0).height) print("trials with 0 offences:", df.filter(pl.col("offences").list.len() == 0).height, "| 0 charges:", df.filter(pl.col("charges").list.len() == 0).height, "| punishments with no defendant:", df.explode("punishments").filter(pl.col("punishments").struct.field("defendant_ids").list.len() == 0).height)