UIViewController subclass to support both NIB loading and non - iphone

Question

I'm in the midst of creating a framework to be used internally, and I'm running into issues making a flexible view controller with a custom view.
The goal is to have an implementation similar to UITableViewController:
If the view controller is initialized with a nib (or if a nib of the same name is found), it uses the outlets defined therein to define it's view. It is somewhat up to the developer to ensure the right subclass of UIView is used.
If the view controller is initialized without a nib (or if no nib can be found), it creates it's own view, using the correct UIView subclass.
As a first stab, I overrode -loadView to create the custom view. This is what you would do if you weren't concerned with nibs, and it works great. However, if I try to load a nib (using, for example, -initWithNibNamed:bundle:) the -loadView method executes and the nib is ignored.
I've also tried using -nibName to determine if a nib name was passed, and this PARTIALLY works, but fails if nil was passed (which is still valid, and should absolutely still work if there is a nib of the same name as the view controller).
Keep in mind that I'm building a framework that will be used by other developers. "Flexible" and "Foolproof" are the keywords.
Any help at all would be more than I have now. Thanks much.
Edit: Solved
As was alluded to by #bunnyhero's suggestion below, checking for the availability of the nib during -loadView and attempting to recreate it's default implementation turned out to do the trick. I've settled on something like this:
- (void)loadView {
NSString *nib = self.nibName;
NSBundle *bundle = self.nibBundle;
if(!nib) nib = NSStringFromClass([self class]);
if(!bundle) bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString *path = [bundle pathForResource:nib ofType:#"nib"];
if(path) {
[bundle loadNibNamed:nib owner:self options:nil];
return;
}
// Create custom view programmatically here.
}
Thanks #bunnyhero

Answer 1

What if you combine your nibName nil check with a manual check for a nib with the same name as the view controller?
Maybe something like this (untested code off the top of my head):
if ([self nibName] != nil || [[self nibBundle] pathForResource:NSStringFromClass([self class]) ofType:#"xib"] != nil)
{
// nib file exists...
}
I admit this is kind of crude and indirect :)