I can’t believe I jacked with this process for a stinking hour before I stumbled on the the right combination. Use the below XML to create the _ld.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<load:load productCode="RC1401" model="http://www.taleo.com/ws/tee800/2009/01" root="UDSElement" operation="delete" locale="en" header="true" delimiter="," quote=""" xmlns:load="http://www.taleo.com/ws/integration/load">
<load:columns>
<load:column parameter="1" type="DATA" path="UserDefinedSelection,Code" searchType="SEARCH" searchTarget=".." localeType="NONE"/>
<load:column parameter="1" type="DATA" path="Code" searchType="SEARCH" searchTarget="." localeType="NONE"/>
</load:columns>
<load:processingInstructions/>
</load:load>