generic markup

I wrote the term generic markup in a lot of xml literature but I'm not shure
what it really means ? Does it describes the fact that the user is able to
define his own markup or does it describes the fact that the markup
describes the content of a document in a semantic way ?

Regards 
Ludger 

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