Example - Creating Fragments with Required Parents Only

In this example, the split element is a subelement, <country>, which is a part of the <Employee> element. 

<?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>
<name>Kris Amigon</name>
<department>Marketing</department>
<country>UK</country>
<employ-type>Permanent</employ-type>
<year>1997</year>
</Employee>
<Employee>
.............
.............
</Employees>

The fragments created contain one fixed header which includes unrequired elements such as <name> and <department> element. 

<?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>
<name>Kris Amigon</name>
<department>Marketing</department>
<country>UK</country>
<employ-type>Permanent</employ-type>
<year>1997</year>
</Employee>
<Employee>
.............
.............
</Employees>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Employees>
<Employee>
<name>Josephine Foller</name>
<department>Marketing</department>
<country>USA</country>
.............
<country>UK</country>
</Employee>
</Employees>

If you want the fragment to contain only the repeating subelements (without the above unrequired elements), you can specify the split element as a /Employees/Employee/country expression on the Input tab of the activity. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Employees>
<Employee>
<country>USA</country>
.............
<country>UK</country>
</Employee>
</Employees>