diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12da41c..512ba56 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ $ cat robots.html  | pup 'div#p-namespaces a'
 <a href="/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c">
  Article
 </a>
-<a href="/wiki/Talk:Robots_exclusion_standard" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t">
+<a href="/wiki/Talk:Robots_exclusion_standard" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t">
  Talk
 </a>
 ```
@@ -282,16 +282,25 @@ $ cat robots.html | pup 'div#p-namespaces a json{}'
 [
  {
   "accesskey": "c",
+  "children": [
+   {
+    "text": "Article"
+   }
+  ],
   "href": "/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard",
   "tag": "a",
-  "text": "Article",
   "title": "View the content page [c]"
  },
  {
   "accesskey": "t",
+  "children": [
+   {
+    "text": "Talk"
+   }
+  ],
   "href": "/wiki/Talk:Robots_exclusion_standard",
+  "rel": "discussion",
   "tag": "a",
-  "text": "Talk",
   "title": "Discussion about the content page [t]"
  }
 ]
@@ -304,16 +313,25 @@ $ cat robots.html | pup -i 4 'div#p-namespaces a json{}'
 [
     {
         "accesskey": "c",
+        "children": [
+            {
+                "text": "Article"
+            }
+        ],
         "href": "/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard",
         "tag": "a",
-        "text": "Article",
         "title": "View the content page [c]"
     },
     {
         "accesskey": "t",
+        "children": [
+            {
+                "text": "Talk"
+            }
+        ],
         "href": "/wiki/Talk:Robots_exclusion_standard",
+        "rel": "discussion",
         "tag": "a",
-        "text": "Talk",
         "title": "Discussion about the content page [t]"
     }
 ]
diff --git a/display.go b/display.go
index 0be946c..3b16f01 100644
--- a/display.go
+++ b/display.go
@@ -272,38 +272,32 @@ func jsonify(node *html.Node) map[string]interface{} {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	vals["tag"] = node.DataAtom.String()
+	switch node.Type {
+	case html.ElementNode:
+		vals["tag"] = node.Data
+	case html.TextNode:
+		text := strings.TrimSpace(node.Data)
+		if text != "" {
+			if pupEscapeHTML {
+				// don't escape javascript
+				if node.DataAtom != atom.Script {
+					text = html.EscapeString(text)
+				}
+			}
+			vals["text"] = text
+		}
+	case html.CommentNode:
+		comment := strings.TrimSpace(node.Data)
+		if pupEscapeHTML {
+			comment = html.EscapeString(comment)
+		}
+		vals["comment"] = comment
+	}
 	children := []interface{}{}
 	for child := node.FirstChild; child != nil; child = child.NextSibling {
-		switch child.Type {
-		case html.ElementNode:
-			children = append(children, jsonify(child))
-		case html.TextNode:
-			text := strings.TrimSpace(child.Data)
-			if text != "" {
-				if pupEscapeHTML {
-					// don't escape javascript
-					if node.DataAtom != atom.Script {
-						text = html.EscapeString(text)
-					}
-				}
-				// if there is already text we'll append it
-				currText, ok := vals["text"]
-				if ok {
-					text = fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", currText, text)
-				}
-				vals["text"] = text
-			}
-		case html.CommentNode:
-			comment := strings.TrimSpace(child.Data)
-			if pupEscapeHTML {
-				comment = html.EscapeString(comment)
-			}
-			currComment, ok := vals["comment"]
-			if ok {
-				comment = fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", currComment, comment)
-			}
-			vals["comment"] = comment
+		jChild := jsonify(child)
+		if len(jChild) > 0 {
+			children = append(children, jChild)
 		}
 	}
 	if len(children) > 0 {
diff --git a/tests/expected_output.txt b/tests/expected_output.txt
index 7f06b47..3b08cee 100644
--- a/tests/expected_output.txt
+++ b/tests/expected_output.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ a92e50c09cd56970625ac3b74efbddb83b2731bb table li
 66950e746590d7f4e9cfe3d1adef42cd0addcf1d table li:last-of-type
 0a37d612cd4c67a42bd147b1edc5a1128456b017 table a[title="The Practice of Programming"]
 0d3918d54f868f13110262ffbb88cbb0b083057d table a[title="The Practice of Programming"] text{}
-ecb542a30fc75c71a0c6380692cbbc4266ccbce4 json{}
+199188dc8f1522426a628e41d96264bffb8beb0f json{}
 95ef88ded9dab22ee3206cca47b9c3a376274bda text{}
 e4f7358fbb7bb1748a296fa2a7e815fa7de0a08b .after-portlet
 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 .after
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ d314e83b059bb876b0e5ee76aa92d54987961f9a .navbox-list li:nth-last-child(1)
 613bf65ac4042b6ee0a7a47f08732fdbe1b5b06b #toc
 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 #toc li + a
 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 #toc li + a text{}
-97d170e1550eee4afc0af065b78cda302a97674c #toc li + a json{}
+cd0d4cc32346750408f7d4f5e78ec9a6e5b79a0d #toc li + a json{}
 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 #toc li + a + span
 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 #toc li + span
 da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 #toc li > li