target="_blank" for XHTML Strict

For better or for worse, it's a widespread convention for offsite links to open in a new window. This is usually achieved by setting the attribute target="_blank" on the link in question.

Of course, the target attribute is illegal in XHTML Strict—so this bit of functionality of will invalidate your pages.

I whipped up a simple fix to this problem. Here's the demo and download page.

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