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cannot stop xalan from java extension

           Summary: cannot stop xalan from java extension
           Product: XalanJ2
           Version: 2.3
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Xalan
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: tony.nys@aditel.be


You cannot stop any longer xalan processing by throwing an exception in an
extension function/element.
This worked in 2.0 but stopped working in 2.3.x


if you make a simple xslt extension element and you throw an exception, 
xalan calls the .warning() function in the errorhandler and so does not stop.
also, the exception (and message) is lost and replaced in the warning by an 
invocationtarget exception (reflect)

Instead it should call fatalError() in the errorhandler and pass the original 
exception incapsulated in transformeexception

This is a serious problem because we want to stop all processing when we need
to. Now, the xsl continues and does actions we do not want to do, in case of 
error.