In the readme a[target] is whitelisted but HTML purifier needs additional configuration to actually allow the target attribute.
https://github.com/Exercise/HTMLPurifierBundle#whitelist-attributes
http://htmlpurifier.org/docs
http://htmlpurifier.org/live/configdoc/plain.html#Attr.AllowedFrameTargets
This could lead to some wrong configurations.
Maybe adding Attr.AllowedFrameTargets to the example could improve this?