Weakly compact sets in Banach spaces are fragmentable. We introduce th
e weaker notion of the sigma-fragmentability of a subset of a Banach s
pace, a notion that has a far wider range of applicability. We prove t
hat all weakly Cech-analytic subsets of a Banach space are sigma-fragm
ented. This implies that all Banach spaces having Kadec norms are sigm
a-fragmented. However l(infinity) is not sigma-fragmented.