Ordered Lists with descriptions

I'm writing an ordered list. For each element in the list, I'd like to have two lines. One for the name of the item and another for a description of the item.

This is what I'm currently doing:

<ol>
    <li>
        <ul>
            <li>Item one</li>
            <li>An explanation of the item.&l开发者_StackOverflow社区t;/li>
       </ul>
    </li>
    <li>
        <ul>
            <li>Item two</li>
            <li>An explanation of the item.</li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ol>

It seems like a lot to achieve what I was looking for. Does anyone know a quicker way to pull this off?

You may want to use a definition list (<dl>) instead of the inner ul.

<dl>
   <dt>Dog</dt>
   <dd>A carnivorous mammal of the family Canidae.</dd>
</dl>

How about:

<ol>
    <li>
        <h3>Item one</h3>
        <p>An explanation of the item.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
        <h3>Item two</h3>
        <p>An explanation of the item.</p>
    </li>
</ol>

(Replace <h3> with the appropriate level heading in that context in the document — or, if you’re using HTML5, wrap the <ol> in a <section> tag, and use <h1> in place of <h3>.)

Or do you really need an ordered list? If not, the definition list is the thing:

<dl>
    <dt>Item one</dt>
    <dd>An explanation of the item.</dd>

    <dt>Item two</dt>
    <dd>An explanation of the item.</dd>
</dl>