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                                     java.math.BigDecimal&nbsp;seconds)</PRE>
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<DD><p>Obtain a new instance of a <code>Duration</code>
 specifying the <code>Duration</code> as isPositive, years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds.</p>
 
 <p>The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size.
 Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values.
 An <CODE>UnsupportedOperationException</CODE> will be thrown with a message ind