<xsl:template match="/catalog/item">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="description"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="description">
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

If I have an xml structure like this:

<catalog>
  <item>
       <description><b>A nice shoe</b></description>
  </item>
</catalog>

and my xsl looks like this:

<xsl:template match="/catalog/item">
        <xsl:copy-of select="description"/>
</xsl:template>

my HTML output is:
<description><b>A nice shoe</b></description>

How can I output the html without the <description> tags? I wish to preserve
the <b> tags which may or may not be there.

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