Better preservation of empty string type.

diff --git a/shibsp/remoting/impl/ddf.cpp b/shibsp/remoting/impl/ddf.cpp
index d134c5a..81122cf 100644 (file)
--- a/shibsp/remoting/impl/ddf.cpp
+++ b/shibsp/remoting/impl/ddf.cpp
@@ -1016,8 +1016,7 @@ DDF deserialize(DOMElement* root, bool lowercase)
             }
             else {
                 char* val = toUTF8(child->getNodeValue(), true);    // use malloc
-                if (val)
-                    obj.string(val, false); // don't re-copy the string
+                obj.string(val, false); // don't re-copy the string
             }
         }
     }