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
Nov 3, 2026 00:02Andrew Epstein10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
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2Nov 3, 2026 00:11074,821,87858,818,0006,411,00066,244,608invalid character ',' looking for beginning of valuestderr
3Nov 3, 2026 00:11074,385,49159,778,0005,385,00066,461,696invalid character ',' looking for beginning of valuestderr
4Aug 19, 2026 16:202,38930,174,10713,137,0008,608,00092,712,960stderr
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