Checking SVN path existence using ANT

The use case here was to check whether the path has already existed in SVN using ANT. I was staring on the script (shown below) for a very long time and wondering how could I improve the piece to make it more interesting and sexy.

   <if>
      <svnExists target="${svnPath}/MessageFlow/${tagname}" refid="svn.settings"/>
      <then>
         ...
      </then>
   </if>

   <if>
      <not><svnExists target="${svnPath}/MessageFlow/${tagname}" refid="svn.settings"/></not>
      <then>
         ...
      </then>
   </if>

After some rearrangement then I come out this piece:

   <condition property="exists">
      <svnExists target="${ svnPath}/MessageFlow/${tagname}" refid="svn.settings"/>
   </condition>

   <!—if exists is false -->
   <if>
      <not><equals arg1="${exists}" arg2="true"/></not>
      <then>
         ...
      </then>
   </if>

   <!—if exists is true -->
   <if>
      <equals arg1="${exists}" arg2="true"/>
      <then>
         ...
      </then>
   </if>

The difference on the newer piece is that I've adopted <condition> in the script and the result was keep in exists property. Would it be better? Errrrr... It seems that a lot more code need to be done to achieve the same result.