Forms of Markup: (4) Descriptive

(lq)
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
(/lq)

Similarly, Wordsworth . . . .

Compare descriptive markup to text with

• HTML used as pure descriptive markup
• HTML used as confusing combination of procedural and descriptive markup
• presentational
• presentational
• procedural markup
• without any markup at all.

Markup can provide the basis for the electronic or hypertext document.