From 8318e143de662816b0becdc2d26c2c5990a6397a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Putney <jputney@noverant.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 19:15:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] If root element is empty, don't start with dot

---
 src/BaseAPI.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/BaseAPI.js b/src/BaseAPI.js
index 4c44b9f..97c7fc3 100644
--- a/src/BaseAPI.js
+++ b/src/BaseAPI.js
@@ -810,9 +810,10 @@ export default class BaseAPI {
 
     this.startingData = json;
 
+    // could this be refactored down to flatten(json) then setCMIValue on each?
     for (const key in json) {
       if ({}.hasOwnProperty.call(json, key) && json[key]) {
-        const currentCMIElement = CMIElement + '.' + key;
+        const currentCMIElement = (CMIElement ? CMIElement + '.' : '') + key;
         const value = json[key];
 
         if (value['childArray']) {