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title: "error — Throw error"
description: "iXML command error: Throw error."
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# error — Throw error

ERROR breaks out of the current control flow by throwing an error with an error message.

An error can be thrown and caught. Code may be surrounded by a TRY statement, to facilitate the catching of potential errors.

### Attributes
- (none)

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- (none documented)

### Examples

```xml
<try>
	<set var="name">iXML</set>

	<if value1="$name" func="=" value2="iXML">
		<error>An error has occurred!</error>
	</if>

	<catch var="error">
		<output>$error</output>
	</catch>
</try>

<!-- An error has occurred! -->
```