IIRC this is fixed in Saxon 8.9.0.4. Saxon 8.9 was calling a method that's
only present in JDK 1.5, and running the compiler in 1.4 mode didn't spot
the fact.

There's a saxon-help list and forum on SourceForge, which provide a better
place for product-specific issues.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: iwanttokeepanon [mailto:iwanttokeepanon@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 August 2007 19:16
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Efficiency: predicate vs function
> 
> > [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(Calcu
> lator.java:635)
>    at 
> net.sf.saxon.expr.ArithmeticExpression.evaluateItem(Arithmetic
> Expression.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?
> 
> --
> Rodman