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Fragment Roots

  • Last Updated: April 15, 2026
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    • MarkLogic Server
    • Version 11.0
    • Documentation

If a document contains many instances of an XML structure that share a common element name, then these structures make sensible fragments. With MarkLogic Server, you can use this common element name as a fragment root.

The following diagram shows an XML document rooted at <CitationSet> that contains many instances of a <Citation> node. Each <Citation> node contains further XML and averages between 15K and 20K in size. Based on this information, <Citation> is a sensible element to use as a fragment root:

Diagram showing an XML document rooted at <CitationSet> that contains many instances of a <Citation> node.

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