Example

An Employees XML file has employee records with all the details of employees.

In the fragment XML criteria, the <Employee> element name is used to split the original XML into smaller fragments.

Original XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Employees>
<Employee>
<name>Josephine Foller</name>
<department>Marketing</department>
<country>USA</country>
<employ-type>Permanent</employ-type>
<year>1985</year>
</Employee>
<Employee>
.............
.............
</Employee>
</Employees>

Fragment XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Employees>
<Employee>
<name>Josephine Foller</name>
<department>Marketing</department>
<country>USA</country>
<employ-type>Permanent</employ-type>
<year>1985</year>
</Employee>
</Employees>