Why target="_blank" is not advisable to use with XHTML?

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Published on 2010-02-12T07:13:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 16:48 UTC
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and It's validated in XHTML 1.1 and WCAG 2.0 Guidelines doesn't have any info about it's use?

I know it's not valid in XHTML 1.0 strict but if many people using other ways like JavaScript, jquery, rel attribute, PHP etc.

Does it make sense? it means people don't want to follow validation rules. they just want to pass the validation.

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