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 15:05Victor Mercklé10.00CustomSolution Broken
Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Jul 6, 2026 15:060192,872,900129,662,00052,624,00092,323,840invalid character '<' after object key:value pair
2Jul 6, 2026 15:060188,772,354129,939,00050,949,00092,368,896invalid character '<' after object key:value pair
3Jul 6, 2026 15:060190,538,559129,810,00052,656,00092,340,224invalid character '<' after object key:value pair
4Aug 9, 2022 19:1719,099245,996,817173,802,852092,618,752
5Aug 9, 2022 19:1719,114247,866,402173,940,215092,622,848
6Aug 9, 2022 19:1719,120242,790,058173,987,806092,614,656