diff --git a/digest.js b/digest.js
index 729b66141..1b62b1418 100644
--- a/digest.js
+++ b/digest.js
@@ -134,9 +134,12 @@ function zoom(elem, article_id) {
 			onComplete: function(transport) {
 				fatal_error_check(transport);
 
-				if (transport.responseXML) {
-					var article = transport.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('article')[0];
-					elem.innerHTML = article.firstChild.nodeValue;
+				var reply = JSON.parse(transport.responseText);
+
+				if (reply) {
+					var article = reply['article'];
+
+					elem.innerHTML = article.content;
 
 					new Effect.BlindDown(elem, {duration : 0.5});
 
diff --git a/modules/backend-rpc.php b/modules/backend-rpc.php
index 7c26d2ec4..fe4b6d302 100644
--- a/modules/backend-rpc.php
+++ b/modules/backend-rpc.php
@@ -608,24 +608,18 @@
 		} 
 
 		if ($subop == "digest-get-contents") {
+			header("Content-Type: text/plain");
+
 			$article_id = db_escape_string($_REQUEST['article_id']);
 
 			$result = db_query($link, "SELECT content 
 				FROM ttrss_entries, ttrss_user_entries
 				WHERE id = '$article_id' AND ref_id = id AND owner_uid = ".$_SESSION['uid']);
 
-			print "<rpc-reply>";
-
-			print "<article id=\"$article_id\"><![CDATA[";
-
 			$content = sanitize_rss($link, db_fetch_result($result, 0, "content"));
 
-			print $content;
-
-			print "]]></article>";
-
-			print "</rpc-reply>";
-
+			print json_encode(array("article" =>
+				array("id" => $id, "content" => $content)));
 			return;
 		}