  XML is gradually employed as a standard of data exchange in web environment
since its inception in the 90s until present. It serves as a data exchange
between systems and other applications. Meanwhile the data volume has grown
substantially in the web and thus effective methods of storing and retrieving
these data is essential. One recommended way is physically or virtually
fragments the large chunk of data and distributes the fragments into different
nodes. Fragmentation design of XML document contains of two parts:
fragmentation operation and fragmentation method. The three fragmentation
operations are Horizontal, Vertical and Hybrid. It determines how the XML
should be fragmented. This paper aims to give an overview on the fragmentation
design consideration and subsequently, propose a fragmentation technique using
number addressing.
