Re: Ignoring data before first match element

  Why is this happening? Should the content before my
  first "match" not be ignored?

No. Try a stylesheet with no templates: you don't get nothing you get
all the character data from all elements.

This is a FAQ.

there are default templates so every element is matched, the default
template for elements just applies templates to the children (if this
was not the case, processing would have stopped on your top level data
element as you have not supplied a template for that) the default
template for text nodes copies then to the result.

You either want to just process that element (those elements?), in which
case you want 

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="/data/response/record"/>
</xsl:template>

Or you want to proxess everything but the processing of searchTerm
elements should produce nothing, ie a template like:

<xsl:template match="searchTerm"/>

David

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