`<glossScopeNote>`

The <glossScopeNote> element contains a clarification of the subject that is designated by the <glossterm>, such as examples of included or excluded companies or products. For instance, a scope note for "Linux" might explain that the term does not apply to UNIX products; it might give examples of Linux products that are included as well as UNIX products that are excluded.

Specialization hierarchy

The <glossScopeNote> element is specialized from <note>. It is defined in the glossary entry module.

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes and the attributes defined below.

@othertype

Specifies an alternate note type. This value is used as the user-provided note label when the @type attribute value is set to other.

@type

Specifies the type of a note. This differs from the @type attribute on many other DITA elements. The following are the allowable values:

attention
caution
danger
important
note
notice
other
remember
restriction
tip
trouble
warning
-dita-use-conref-target

Example

<glossentry id="linuxOS" xml:lang="en-us">
  <glossterm>Linux Operating System</glossterm>
  <glossdef>An operating system based on the kernel created by Linus Torvald.</glossdef>
  <glossBody>
    <glossPartOfSpeech value="noun"/>
    <glossScopeNote>Doesn't apply to UNIX products that bundle other
kernels. Also, doesn't apply to the Linux Open Source Project that
work on Linux distributions but, instead, only to the distributions
themselves.  Examples include RedHat, SuSE, and Ubuntu. </glossScopeNote>
  </glossBody>
</glossentry>