  All the next-to-leading order results on Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions
have been obtained in the literature either by using the operator product
expansion method or by making use of the Curci Furmanski Petronzio (CFP)
formalism in conjunction with light-like axial gauge, principal value (PV)
prescription and dimensional regularization. In this paper we present the
calculation of some non-singlet two-loop anomalous dimensions within the CFP
formalism using light-cone axial gauge with Mandelstam-Leibbrandt (ML)
prescription. We make a detailed comparison between the intermediate results
given by the (PV) versus the (ML) method. We point out that the (ML) method is
completely consistent and avoids the ``phenomenological rules'' used in the
case of (PV) regularization.
