[TM4J-users] Is it a problem to merge topics and topic-types separately?

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I have a Topic Map consisting of two files (so far).

- One with different topics
- One with all the topic-types referred to in the other file.

If I cut and paste the content of these files into one it works just fine,
but I need to do this automaticly using CMD.

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Topics.xtm:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE topicMap SYSTEM "http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/xtm1.dtd">
<topicMap xmlns="http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<!--Book-->
   <topic id="id2002IEEE_Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_Systems">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#books" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/2002IEEE_Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_System
s" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems 2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--Journal-->
   <topic id="Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_Systems131">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#journals" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_Systems131" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems January 2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--Publisher-->
   <topic id="idPublished_by_the_IEEE_Computer_Society">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#organizations" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/Published_by_the_IEEE_Computer_Society" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>

<baseNameString>Published_by_the_IEEE_Computer_Society</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--Article-->
   <topic id="id10.1041_l0001s-2002">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#articles" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/IEEE_TRANSACTIONS_ON_PARALLEL_AND_DISTRIBUTED_SYSTEMS"
/>
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEMS (10.1041/l0001s-2002)</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--YearMonth-->
   <topic id="id2002january">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#date" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topics/2002January" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>2002 January</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--Article-->
   <topic id="id10.1041_l0004s-2001">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#articles" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/IEEE_TRANSACTIONS_ON_PARALLEL_AND_DISTIBUTED_SYSTEMS" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTIBUTED
SYSTEMS (10.1041/l0004s-2001)</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--Year-->
   <topic id="id2002">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#date" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topics/2002" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

<!--Year-->
   <topic id="id2002">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#date" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topics/2002" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>
</topicMap>

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topicTypes.xtm:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<topicMap xmlns="http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<!--Topic Types-->
   <topic id="organizations">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/organizations" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>Organization</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="books">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/books" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>Books</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="journals">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/journals" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>Journals</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="articles">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/articles" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>Articles</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="date">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/date" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>Date</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="person">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/person" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName>
         <baseNameString>Person</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>
</topicMap>
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I use the command line tool in TM4J:

compress -o testMerge.xtm Topics.xtm topicTypes.xtm

And the result is this:

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testMerge.xtm:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<topicMap id="x1kq61aj4o-0"
xml:base="file:/home/others/homer/groups/i/it3803gr3/result/topicTest.xtm"
xmlns="http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
   <topic id="x1kq61ajdo-13">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/articles" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-14">
         <baseNameString>Articles</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="id2002">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#date" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topics/2002" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-b">
         <baseNameString>2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="id10.1041_l0001s-2002">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#articles" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/IEEE_TRANSACTIONS_ON_PARALLEL_AND_DISTRIBUTED_SYSTEMS"
/>
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-7">
         <baseNameString>IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEMS (10.1041/l0001s-2002)</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="id10.1041_l0004s-2001">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#articles" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/IEEE_TRANSACTIONS_ON_PARALLEL_AND_DISTIBUTED_SYSTEMS" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-a">
         <baseNameString>IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTIBUTED
SYSTEMS (10.1041/l0004s-2001)</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="journals" />

   <topic id="id2002IEEE_Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_Systems">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#books" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/2002IEEE_Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_System
s" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-1">
         <baseNameString>IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems 2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="x1kq61ajdo-11">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/journals" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-12">
         <baseNameString>Journals</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="books" />

   <topic id="x1kq61ajdo-f">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/books" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-10">
         <baseNameString>Books</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_Systems131">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#journals" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/Transactions_on_Parallel_and_Distributed_Systems131" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-3">
         <baseNameString>IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems January 2002</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="x1kq61ajdo-15">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/date" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-16">
         <baseNameString>Date</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="articles" />

   <topic id="organizations" />

   <topic id="idPublished_by_the_IEEE_Computer_Society">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#organizations" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef
xlink:href="/topics/Published_by_the_IEEE_Computer_Society" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-5">

<baseNameString>Published_by_the_IEEE_Computer_Society</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="x1kq61ajdo-d">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/organizations" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-e">
         <baseNameString>Organization</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="person">
      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topicType/person" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-17">
         <baseNameString>Person</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="id2002january">
      <instanceOf>
         <topicRef xlink:href="#date" />
      </instanceOf>

      <subjectIdentity>
         <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="/topics/2002January" />
      </subjectIdentity>

      <baseName id="x1kq61ajdo-9">
         <baseNameString>2002 January</baseNameString>
      </baseName>
   </topic>

   <topic id="date" />
</topicMap>

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I you can see I have som duplicate topics in topics.xtm, but the compress
tool seem to handle these just fine. But my problem is the Topic Types. 
They are changed into this:
<topic id="articles" />
<topic id="organizations" /> etc...

And therefor when I test my Topic Map in TM4L viewer I have five Topic Types
without names, and the original Topic Types are only empty Topics.

Why does this happen? 
What can I do to avoid this?

I's be most grateful for any help.

Regards 

Ketil Stadskleiv