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
Sep 5, 2026 02:45Tomislav Tunkovic10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Sep 5, 2026 04:14049,444,36536,561,0004,398,00051,679,232invalid character 'm' after object key:value pairstderr
2Sep 5, 2026 04:14049,385,03936,566,0004,391,00051,679,232invalid character '>' looking for beginning of valuestderr
3Sep 5, 2026 04:14049,516,86036,712,0004,331,00051,642,368invalid character 's' looking for beginning of valuestderr
4Sep 4, 2026 07:352,35029,782,06312,919,0008,466,00092,704,768stderr
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