How can I know using GDataXML if a node exists in the xml string

Question

On my iOS app I am trying to find out if a node exists or not in the XML data. I am trying to use

+ (GDataXMLElement *)elementWithName:(NSString *)name expecting it will return a nil if the node is not present but it does not seem to work.

One option is to convert the XML string into a dictionary and search for the key. But is there a way to skip the Dictionary conversion.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Finally got it working by using this

GDataXMLElement *abc = (GDataXMLElement *)parentNode;
NSArray *tempArray = [abc elementsForName:childNode ];
return [tempArray count];

Please let me know if there are any other ways of doing this.