[TYPO3-english] COA always true when used in if.isTrue.cObject?

[tcrass]

Hi Stephan,

thank you for your detailed and instructive reply, in particular the 
link to the rendering process chart. I'm sorry, though, you found my 
example too long since I really tried to break down my actual problem 
into a minimum working example, trying to use self-explaining object names.

Anyway, I'm not convinced that isTrue evaluates to true just due to some 
placholder strings for non-cacheable objects since I get exactly the 
same output when either

a) replacing the COA_INTs with plain COAs and/or
b) entirely removing the TEXT object from the supposedly empty COA(_INT).

(And yes, I did clear the cache after applying those changes... ;)

It seems that if.isTrue.cObject < some COA(_INT) always yields true, no 
matter whether the content array is cacheable or not and/or does contain 
anything at all.
So... is there any way to use COA(_INT)s in conditional typoscript 
expressions and make decisions based on whether they render as empty or 
non-empty string?

Cheers --

	Torsten