diff --git a/schema/def/sampleFragmentSchema.xml b/schema/def/sampleFragmentSchema.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<pagis-fragment id="organization-employee" xmlns="http://pagi.org/schema">
+    <nodeType name="organization">
+        <!-- required attributes -->
+        <stringProperty name="name" minArity="1" maxArity="1"/>
+
+        <stringProperty name="website" />
+        <integerProperty name="num_employees" minRange="1" maxArity="1"/>
+
+        <edgeType name="org_parent" targetNodeType="organization" maxArity="1" />
+        <edgeType name="org_child" targetNodeType="organization"/>
+    </nodeType>
+
+    <nodeType name="employee">
+        <!-- required attributes -->
+        <stringProperty name="name" minArity="1" maxArity="1"/>
+        <stringProperty name="ssn" minArity="1" maxArity="1"/>                           <!-- social security number -->
+        <stringProperty name="title" />
+        <stringProperty name="ethnicity" />
+        <stringProperty name="birth_date" maxArity="1"/>
+        <stringProperty name="email" />
+        <stringProperty name="phone" />
+        <enumProperty name="gender" maxArity="1">
+            <item name="M"/>
+            <item name="F"/>
+        </enumProperty>
+
+        <edgeType name="employed_by" targetNodeType="organization">
+            <stringProperty name="dur_start" maxArity="1" minArity="0"/>
+            <stringProperty name="dur_end" maxArity="1" minArity="0"/>
+        </edgeType>
+    </nodeType>
+</pagis-fragment>
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diff --git a/stream/fragment-xml/sampleFragment.xml b/stream/fragment-xml/sampleFragment.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<graphFragment xmlns="http://pagi.org/stream" sourceGraph="company-org" fragmentIdentifier="IT">
+    <schema uri="organization-employee"/>
+
+    <node type="organization" id="my-company">
+        <strProp k="name" v="My Company"/>
+        <strProp k="num_employees" v="2"/>
+    </node>
+
+    <node type="employee" id="1231233333">
+        <strProp k="name" v="Jane Doe"/>
+
+        <strProp k="ssn" v="1231233333"/>
+        <strProp k="title" v="Director of IT"/>
+        <strProp k="ethnicity" v="Hispanic"/>
+        <strProp k="gender" v="M"/>
+
+        <edge type="employed_by" toType="organization" to="my-company">
+            <strProp k="dur_start" v="2012-01-01"/>
+        </edge>
+    </node>
+    <node type="employee" id="3213211111">
+        <strProp k="name" v="John Smith"/>
+
+        <strProp k="ssn" v="3213211111"/>
+        <strProp k="title" v="Network Administrator"/>
+        <strProp k="ethnicity" v="White"/>
+        <strProp k="gender" v="M"/>
+
+        <edge type="employed_by" toType="organization" to="my-company">
+            <strProp k="dur_start" v="2005-01-01"/>
+        </edge>
+    </node>
+</graphFragment>
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