hexadecimal to decimal in xpath not possible

Posted by on 22 Apr 2008 in Activity Log

In advance of the meeting with Simon I went through the files and got Martin to send me the XSLT which takes my xml input and generates ids for the recorder's reports and the trials. (Bailey_add_id.xsl and Bailey_ids_added.txt) Those ids are hexadecimal and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn those into decimal integers in xpath, so the output file will need to be processed.

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Capital Trials at the Old Bailey

Simon Devereaux has approximately 10,000 records of people convicted in potentially capital cases between 1710 and 1840 in London heard at the Old Bailey court. This project will create a web-based database which will allow interested researchers and members of the public to compose queries on that data (e.g. women charged with robbery 1710-1720). It must be able to support a range of queries and produce output allowing researchers to identify trends in judicial practice over that time.