17.5.2.16 equation

This element specifies that the nearest ancestor structured document tag shall be of type equation.

This setting does not require or imply that the contents of the structured document tag shall contain only an equation or associated placeholder text, it shall only be used to specify that the structured document tag is of this kind, which can be used by an application as desired.

[Example: Consider the following structured document tag:

<w:sdt>
  <w:sdtPr>
    …
    <w:equation/>
  </w:sdtPr>
  …
</w:sdt>

The equation element in this structured document tag’s properties specify that the type of structured document tag is equation. end example]

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_Empty) is located in A.1. end note]