XML to JSON Sergey Svistunov

Convert 1,000,000 person records from XML to JSON as fast as possible.

Input

XML document on STDIN:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persons>
    <person id="1512376">
        <age>30</age>
        <height>169.1</height>
        <married>true</married>
        <phone code="+6"><number>1283603279</number></phone>
        <phone code="+6"><number>1659964668</number></phone>
    </person>
    ...
</persons>

Output

One JSON object per person to STDOUT, preserving order:

{
    "id": 1512376,
    "age": 30,
    "height": 169.1,
    "married": true,
    "phones": [
        {
            "code": "+6",
            "number": 1283603279
        },
        {
            "code": "+6",
            "number": 1659964668
        }
    ]
}

Constraints

  • Preserve the order of persons
  • Omit the phones field if the phone array is empty
  • Maximum number of phones per person is 3
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Challenge History
DateChallengerCostTypeStatus
Jul 6, 2026 08:18Victor Mercklé10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Jul 6, 2026 08:19010,437,3381,245,00002,121,728invalid character '\n' in string literal
2Jul 6, 2026 08:19010,469,2821,243,00002,121,728invalid character '\n' in string literal
3Jul 6, 2026 08:19011,295,6041,219,00002,121,728invalid character '\n' in string literal
4Mar 10, 2026 16:394,06262,337,26218,980,00017,981,00094,552,064
5Mar 10, 2026 16:394,06762,299,25019,005,00018,005,00094,670,848
6Mar 10, 2026 16:394,14863,925,85918,875,00018,875,00094,547,968