It looks like Joerg has already done this.
Yeah, the commit was exactly in the same minute you wrote the mail promising the fix: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=110113620718082&w=4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-cvs&m=110113614125454&w=4 :-)
Joerg