Some of the definitions in a definition-list have clearly-defined attributions, for example ISO. It seems logical, if the goal is to produced a set of structured and searchable files, to use something like

[dlentry]

[dt]name of term goes here[/dt]

[dd]definition of term goes here

[source]attribution goes here[/source]

[/dd]

[/dlentry]

[source] is clearly not the element to use here, though; nor is [author].

Any suggestions?

Typographically, a paragraph is one thing and a list is another - even if the content of the paragraph is nothing than more the lead-in to the list. That would suggest something like [paragraph] [/paragraph] [ul] [/ul]

Logically, the introductory paragraph and the list form a unit of information. That would suggest something like [paragraph] [ul] [/ul] [/paragraph].

The 1.1 language spec. I have to hand appears to allow both. What do you experienced users think?