DITA Open Toolkit is written in Java and requires at least a minimal set of Java applications be installed. Java JDK 1.5 or later must be used to execute the applications and the Toolkit Java code.
It is highly likely that any operating system environment where the supported Java JDK can be installed will support basic Toolkit functionality. The Toolkit has been successfully installed and used on Windows XP, Mac OS X, various UNIX and Linux distributions including FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux, NexentaGNU/OpenSolaris, Solaris, and other operating environments.
Some optional applications can be installed and run only on Windows, for example the HTML Help compiler.
The following tools are required to use DITA Open Toolkit at the 1.5.3 release level.
Supported languages
DITA and DITA Open Toolkit support the languages listed in the following table.
Language | xml:lang value |
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Arabic | ar-eg |
Belarusian | bg-bg |
Bulgarian | be-by |
Catalan | ca-es |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-cn |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-tw |
Croatian | hr-hr |
Czech | cs-cz |
Danish | da-dk |
Dutch | nl-nl |
Dutch (Belgian) | nl-be |
English (Canadian) | en-ca |
English (UK) | en-gb |
English (US) | en-us |
Estonian | et-ee |
Finnish | fi-fi |
French | fr-fr |
French (Belgian) | fr-be |
French (Canadian) | fr-ca |
French (Swiss) | fr-ch |
German | de-de |
German (Swiss) | de-ch |
Greek | el-gr |
Hebrew | he-il |
Hungarian | hu-hu |
Icelandic | is-is |
Italian | it-it |
Italian (Swiss) | it-ch |
Japanese | ja-jp |
Korean | ko-lr |
Latvian | lv-lv |
Lithuanian | lt-lt |
Macedonian | mk-mk |
Norwegian | no-no |
Polish | pl-pl |
Portuguese | pt-pt |
Portuguese (Brazilian) | pt-br |
Romanian | ro-ro |
Russian | ru-ru |
Serbian | sr-sp |
Slovak | sk-sk |
Slovenian | sl-si |
Spanish | es-es |
Swedish | sv-se |
Thai | th-th |
Turkish | tr-tr |
Ukranian | uk-ua |