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 09:06Victor Mercklé10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Jul 6, 2026 09:07012,751,02501,949,0002,121,728invalid character '<' after object key:value pair
2Jul 6, 2026 09:07011,380,27101,917,0002,121,728invalid character '<' after object key:value pair
3Jul 6, 2026 09:07011,767,66901,952,0002,121,728invalid character '<' after object key:value pair
4Apr 30, 2026 15:354,21953,380,13120,207,00018,186,00094,797,824
5Apr 30, 2026 15:354,23358,923,24217,781,00020,744,00094,793,728
6Apr 30, 2026 15:354,24259,510,97519,800,00018,810,00094,789,632
7Apr 30, 2026 15:354,25154,394,26817,855,00020,831,00094,806,016
8Apr 30, 2026 15:354,25260,096,79318,855,00019,847,00094,806,016
9Apr 30, 2026 15:354,25358,718,06420,844,00017,866,00094,806,016
10Apr 30, 2026 15:354,25859,692,13820,865,00017,884,00094,814,208
11Apr 30, 2026 15:354,25956,458,07818,883,00019,877,00094,793,728
12Apr 30, 2026 15:354,29056,664,54020,022,00019,021,00094,806,016