is error-handling inherited?
Only when <map:mount /> is inside pipeline containing error handler; then this handler is "inherited", so to speak. Anything else is a bug.
AFAIK, 2.0 compiled sitemap is 99.9% bug-less (and 0.1% takes "views must start from the last label" TODO item), so you can play with it. Treeprocessor is not complete yet (see bug on action sets, and same TODO item).
Vadim