/*
    Replace target=_blank to this function to be XHTML 1.0 Complient 
*/

function externalLinks() { 

 if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return; 
 var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); 
 for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) { 
   var anchor = anchors[i]; 
   if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && 
       anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external") 
     anchor.target = "_blank"; 
 } 
 
} 


window.onload = externalLinks;