Hi,
> I am having trouble having Google Adsense code stored in XSL converted
> properly into HTML.  The <> unfortunately become &lt; and &gt; and then
> no longer work.

What you are looking for is a way to disable output escaping.

> XSL code is:
>
>    <script type="text/javascript">
>    <![CDATA[
> <!--
>     google_ad_client = "pub-5065036055322567";
>     google_ad_width = 728;
>     google_ad_height = 90;
>     google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
>     google_ad_channel ="";
>     google_page_url = document.location;
>     google_color_border = "0000FF";
>     google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
>     google_color_link = "0000FF";
>     google_color_url = "0000FF";
>     google_color_text = "000000";
>    //-->
>    ]]>
>    </script>

 From a (X)HTML point of view, I think this is a better (only valid?) way to include scripts in a document:

>    <script type="text/javascript">
>    <![CDATA[
>     google_ad_client = "pub-5065036055322567";
>     google_ad_width = 728;
>     google_ad_height = 90;
>     google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
>     google_ad_channel ="";
>     google_page_url = document.location;
>     google_color_border = "0000FF";
>     google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
>     google_color_link = "0000FF";
>     google_color_url = "0000FF";
>     google_color_text = "000000";
>    ]]>
>    </script>


> Resulting HTML code is:
> How do I fix this?

specify the 'cdata-section-elements' attribute:
<xsl:output cdata-section-elements="script"/>


> I get a similar problem when I try to have an XML description containing
> html tags properly included into the meta description:
>

Extract from the XSLT1.0 recommendation:
"It is an error for output escaping to be disabled for a text node that is used for something other than a text node in the result tree."
In this case, you try disbaling output escaping on an attribute. It is not possible with XSLT1.0

> How do I fix this so that it is properly included?
AFAIK, the output returned is the only valid way to use '<' and '>' in attributes, so there isn't anything to 'fix'.


regards,
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