In order to replace a snaphot jar in Cocoon with a proper release we need the BCEL release to come through. Unfortunately BCEL is missing some feedback on the RC2 to do the release though.
So if anyone is using Xalan XSLTC - please give it a try. Just replace the shipped BCEL jar with the one available here: http://people.apache.org/~tcurdt/bcel/rc2/ and give some feedback whether Xalan is still working for you. Thanks -- Torsten