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  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Prerequisite software</h1>
  8. <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The prerequisite software that the DITA-OT requires depends on the types of transformations that you want
  9. to use.</p>
  10. <section class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Software required for core DITA-OT processing</h2>
  11. <div class="p">The DITA-OT requires the following software applications:
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  13. <dt class="dt dlterm">Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK), version <span class="keyword">8</span> or later</dt>
  14. <dd class="dd">Provides the basic environment for the DITA-OT. You can download the Oracle JRE or JDK from <a class="xref" href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads" target="_blank">oracle.com/technetwork/java</a>. <div class="note note note_note"><span class="note__title">Note:</span> This is the <em class="ph i">only</em> prerequisite software that you need to
  15. install. The remaining required software is included in the distribution package.</div></dd>
  16. <dt class="dt dlterm" id="prerequisite-software__antbuild">Apache Ant</dt>
  17. <dd class="dd">Provides the standard setup and sequencing of processing steps. DITA-OT includes Ant version <span class="keyword">1.10.1</span>. You can download Ant from <a class="xref" href="http://ant.apache.org" target="_blank">http://ant.apache.org</a>.</dd>
  18. <dt class="dt dlterm">XSLT processor</dt>
  19. <dd class="dd">Provides the main transformation services. It must be compliant with XSLT 2.0. DITA-OT includes Saxon
  20. version <span class="keyword">9.8.0.7</span>. You can download Saxon from <a class="xref" href="http://saxon.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">http://saxon.sourceforge.net</a>.</dd>
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  23. <section class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Software required for specific transformations</h2>
  24. <div class="p">Depending on the type of output that you want to generate, you might need the following applications:
  25. <dl class="dl">
  26. <dt class="dt dlterm">ICU for Java</dt>
  27. <dd class="dd">ICU for Java is a cross-platform, Unicode-based, globalization library. It
  28. includes support for comparing locale-sensitive strings; formatting dates, times, numbers, currencies, and
  29. messages; detecting text boundaries; and converting character sets. You can download ICU for Java from
  30. <a class="xref" href="http://site.icu-project.org/download" target="_blank">http://site.icu-project.org/download</a>.</dd>
  31. <dt class="dt dlterm">Microsoft Help Workshop</dt>
  32. <dd class="dd">Required for generating HTML help. You can download the Help Workshop from <a class="xref" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms669985%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" target="_blank">msdn.microsoft.com</a>.</dd>
  33. <dt class="dt dlterm">XSL-FO processor</dt>
  34. <dd class="dd">Required for generating PDF output. Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is
  35. included in the distribution package. You can download other versions from <a class="xref" href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html" target="_blank">http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html</a>.
  36. You can also use commercial FO processors such as Antenna House Formatter or RenderX XEP.</dd>
  37. </dl></div>
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