The <glossScopeNote> element contains a clarification of the subject 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 doesn't apply to UNIX products and may give some examples of Linux products that are included as well as UNIX products that are excluded.
| Doctype | Content model |
|---|---|
| ditabase, glossary, glossentry, glossgroup | ( text data or dl or parml or fig or syntaxdiagram or imagemap or image or lines or lq or object or ol or p or pre or codeblock or msgblock or screen or simpletable or sl or table or ul or boolean or cite or keyword or apiname or option or parmname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or ph or b or i or sup or sub or tt or u or codeph or synph or filepath or msgph or systemoutput or userinput or menucascade or uicontrol or q or term or abbreviated-form or tm or xref or state or data or data-about or foreign or unknown or draft-comment or fn or indextermref or indexterm or required-cleanup) (any number) |
<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>
| Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| type | Defines the type of a note. For example, if the note is a tip, the word Tip is used to draw the reader's attention to it. Note that this differs from the type attribute on many other DITA elements. See The type attribute for detailed information on supported values and processing implications. | (note | tip | fastpath | restriction | important | remember | attention | caution | notice | danger | warning | other | -dita-use-conref-target) | No | |
| othertype | Indicates an alternate note type, when the type is not available in the type attribute value list. This value is used as the user-provided note title when the type attribute value is set to "other." | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
| univ-atts attribute group (includes select-atts, id-atts, and localization-atts groups) | A set of related attributes, described in univ-atts attribute group | |||
| global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described in global-atts attribute group | |||
| class, outputclass | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes |
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