diff --git a/lib/packages/docutils/rstast.nim b/lib/packages/docutils/rstast.nim
index 0476e2b073..8f946d9734 100644
--- a/lib/packages/docutils/rstast.nim
+++ b/lib/packages/docutils/rstast.nim
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 ## This module implements an AST for the `reStructuredText`:idx: parser.
 
-import strutils
+import strutils, json
 
 type
   TRstNodeKind* = enum        ## the possible node kinds of an PRstNode
@@ -286,28 +286,27 @@ proc renderRstToRst*(n: PRstNode, result: var string) =
   var d: TRenderContext
   renderRstToRst(d, n, result)
 
+proc renderRstToJsonNode(node: PRstNode): PJsonNode =
+  result =
+    %[
+      (key: "kind", val: %($node.kind)),
+      (key: "level", val: %BiggestInt(node.level))
+     ]
+  if node.text != nil:
+    result.add("text", %node.text)
+  if node.sons != nil and len(node.sons) > 0:
+    var accm = newSeq[PJsonNode](len(node.sons))
+    for i, son in node.sons:
+      accm[i] = renderRstToJsonNode(son)
+    result.add("sons", %accm)
+
 proc renderRstToJson*(node: PRstNode): string =
   ## Writes the given RST node as JSON that is in the form
-  ## :: code-block
+  ## :: 
   ##   {
   ##     "kind":string node.kind,
   ##     "text":optional string node.text,
   ##     "level":optional int node.level,
   ##     "sons":optional node array
   ##   }
-  result = ""
-  result.add("{\"kind\":\"" & $ node.kind & "\",")
-  if node.text != Nil:
-    # XXX Json spec requires control charecters be escaped as \uXXXX,
-    # strutils.escape writes them as \uXX
-    result.add("\"text\":" & node.text.escape & ",")
-  result.add("\"level\":" & $ node.level)
-  if node.sons == nil or len(node.sons) == 0:
-    result.add("}")
-  else:
-    result.add(",\"sons\":[")
-    for i, son in node.sons:
-      result.add(renderRstToJson(son))
-      if i < len(node.sons) - 1:
-        result.add(",")
-    result.add("]}")
+  renderRstToJsonNode(node).pretty