Semantic elements for footnote list and content

Question

Given a set of footnotes at the end of an article:

<article>
    <p>Some content here</p>
    <ol class="footnotes">
        <li id="footnote-1">Footnote 1 text</li>
        <li id="footnote-2">Footnote 2 text</li>
    </ol>
</article>

Is there an HTML5 container element more descriptive/semantic than a ol or div with class = "footnotes" (or is there an appropriate container that should be wrapping the ol element)? And, is there a text element more descriptive/semantic than a p or li for each individual footnote? If not, is there perhaps a microformat out there that at least establishes some common class names to use?

Note this question is not about the markup for footnote links - that's already been discussed and it appears that there is still no element in HTML to semantically identify a footnote link. I left out the footnote links and back-links from the sample markup here for brevity.

Answer 1

There isn't any dedicated mechanism yet, but footnotes either with linked, or simple footer notes with list elements as well as side notes can be merged into a common suggested alternative markups. You might have seen this already - "HTML5 Common Idioms without dedicated elements"

Sure it's more viable to wrap each footnotes within a <section> element if more than one occurs within a single <article>. If that's not the case you can wrap 'em within <footer> or <aside>. Then content elements follows as usual. Like <p> for descriptive segments.

Here is another example of "Footnotes with microformats"