On 8/9/07, iwanttokeepanon <iwanttokeepanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [1] http://andrewjwelch.com/code/xslt/sudoku/sudoku-solver.html
>
> I tried running this in:
>    Saxon 8.9J from Saxonica
>    java version "1.4.2-03"
>       (build Blackdown-1.4.2-03, mixed mode)
>
> and I get:
>  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
> java.math.BigDecimal.<init>(J)V
>    at net.sf.saxon.value.Int64Value.getDecimalValue(Int64Value.java:311)
>    at net.sf.saxon.expr.Calculator$DecimalTimesDecimal.compute(Calculator.java:635)
>    at net.sf.saxon.expr.ArithmeticExpression.evaluateItem(ArithmeticExpression.java:237)
> .....
>
> How can it fail on BigDecimal?  The stack trace is quite long and I
> don't want to post it all unless it will help.
>
> Any ideas?

It's a known bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1707376&group_id=29872&atid=397617

The fix is to use Saxon 8.9.0.4 (or upgrade to Java 1.5)

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