| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
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| 3 | <concept id="prerequisite-software">
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| 4 | <title>Prerequisite software</title>
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| 5 | <shortdesc>The prerequisite software that the DITA-OT requires depends on the type of distribution
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| 6 | package that you intend to install and the types of transformations that you want to
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| 7 | use.</shortdesc>
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| 8 | <conbody>
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| 9 | <section>
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| 10 | <title>Software required for core DITA-OT processing</title>
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| 11 | <p>The DITA-OT requires the following software applications:<dl>
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| 12 | <dlentry>
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| 13 | <dt>JRE or JDK, version <keyword keyref="tool.java.version"/> or later</dt>
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| 14 | <dd>Provides the basic environment for the DITA-OT. You can download the Oracle JRE or
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| 15 | JDK from <xref keyref="download.oracle-jdk"/>. If you opt to use the full-easy-install
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| 16 | package, this is the <i>only</i> prerequisite software that you need to install.</dd>
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| 17 | </dlentry>
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| 18 | <dlentry id="antbuild">
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| 19 | <dt>Ant, version <keyword keyref="tool.ant.version.min"/> or later</dt>
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| 20 | <dd>Provides the standard setup and sequencing of processing steps. You can download Ant
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| 21 | from <xref keyref="download.ant"/>.</dd>
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| 22 | </dlentry>
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| 23 | <dlentry>
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| 24 | <dt>XSLT processor</dt>
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| 25 | <dd>Provides the main transformation services. It must be compliant with XSLT 1.0. The
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| 26 | DITA-OT is tested with both Saxon and Xalan-J. You can download Saxon, version
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| 27 | <keyword keyref="tool.saxon.version"/> from <xref keyref="download.saxon"/> and
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| 28 | Xalan-J, version <keyword keyref="tool.xalan.version"/> or later from <xref
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| 29 | keyref="download.xalan"/>.</dd>
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| 30 | </dlentry>
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| 31 | </dl></p>
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| 32 | </section>
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| 33 | <section>
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| 34 | <title>Software required for specific transformations</title>
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| 35 | <p>Depending on the type of output that you want to generate, you might need the following applications:<dl>
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| 36 | <dlentry>
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| 37 | <dt>ICU for Java</dt>
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| 38 | <dd><draft-comment author="Kristen James Eberlein" time="11 August 2012">Does the
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| 39 | DITA-OT only use ICU for Java for index processing? Index processing is what is
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| 40 | explicitly mentioned in the installing topics.</draft-comment>ICU for Java is a
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| 41 | cross-platform, Unicode-based, globalization library. It includes support for
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| 42 | comparing locale-sensitive strings; formatting dates, times, numbers, currencies, and
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| 43 | messages; detecting text boundaries; and converting character sets. You can download
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| 44 | ICU for Java from <xref keyref="download.icu4j"/>.</dd>
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| 45 | </dlentry>
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| 46 | <dlentry>
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| 47 | <dt>Microsoft Help Workshop</dt>
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| 48 | <dd>Required for generating HTML help. You can download the Help Workshop from <xref
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| 49 | keyref="download.html-help-workshop"/>.</dd>
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| 50 | </dlentry>
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| 51 | <dlentry>
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| 52 | <dt>XSL-FO processor</dt>
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| 53 | <dd>Required for generating PDF output. You can download FOP from <xref
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| 54 | keyref="download.fop"/>; you also can use Antenna House Formatter or RenderX.</dd>
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| 55 | </dlentry>
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| 56 | </dl></p>
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| 57 | <p>See <xref href="DITA-tested.xml">Tested platforms and tools</xref> for detailed information
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| 58 | about versions of the prerequisite applications that have been tested with the current
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| 59 | DITA-OT release.</p>
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| 60 | </section>
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| 61 | </conbody>
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| 62 | </concept>
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