fixing path() to return empty string when necessary - closes #82

README.md

@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ URI.js is published under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/m
 
 ### `[dev-version]` (master branch) ###
 
+* fixing [`path()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to return empty string if there is no path - ([Issue #97](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/97))
 * fixing crashing of `URI.decodeQuery()` on malformed input - now returns original undecoded data - ([Issue #87](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/87), [Issue #92](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/92))
 * fixing build tool - ([Issue #83](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/83))
 * fixing for-loop to make closure compiler happy - ([Issue #93](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/93))

docs.html

@@ -399,7 +399,13 @@ <h3 id="accessors-pathname">pathname(), path()</h3>
 uri.pathname("/hello world/");
 uri.pathname() === "/hello%20world/";
 // will decode for you
-uri.pathname(true) === "/hello world/";</pre>
+uri.pathname(true) === "/hello world/";
+
+// will return empty string for empty paths, but:
+URI("").path() === "";
+URI("/").path() === "/";
+URI("http://example.org").path() === "/";
+</pre>
 
     <h3 id="accessors-directory">directory()</h3>
     <p>.directory() is an convenience method for mutating the directory part of a path</p>

test/test.js

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ test("new URI(Location)", function () {
             var u = new URI(element);
             equal(u.scheme(), "", "scheme");
             equal(u.host(), "", "host");
-            equal(u.path(), "/", "path");
+            equal(u.path(), "", "path");
 
             element[attribute] = "file:///C:/foo/bar.html";
             u = new URI(element);