pugixml - check if node exists or not

Question

I get a child node this way:

pugi::xml_node child = root.child("aaa")

I would like to check if that child node exists. Should I just call child.empty() ?

Answer 1

The xml_node class has a logical bool operator overload that allows you to check that it exists by simply calling

if (child) { ... }

and similarly an operator! for checking if it doesn't exist with

if (!child) { ... }