RSS friendly HTML for magazine-like quote layouts
My question is only about magazine-like quotes, such as the one you can find on on theverge.com for instance.
It may be done with blockquote or q but since it often repeats parts of the content and really part of the layout, it doesn't really make sense to have them in the RSS feeds, neither it does for SEO.
I would like to know what is the best practice for keeping this kind of layout, and have a clean RSS feed.
It's called pull quote.
You shouldn't use blockquote or q for this, because the content is not
quoted from another source.
(Only if you'd use a pull quote that is part of an interview etc., i.e. if the original content itself is quoted, you could use blockquote/q.)
The aside element is appropriate here:
The element can be used for typographical effects like pull quotes […]
Now you could decide to remove all aside elements (that are childs of the article) for the feed.
Or you could only remove those with a certain class, e.g.: <aside class="pull-quote">…</aside>
Or you keep them. I think they can have a value. They can be an eyecatcher, similar to headings. If someone scrolls through a longer feed entry, such pull quotes will typically stand out (new lines before and after), so they'd be read first probably, and may get the reader interested to read that section in detail.