[topicmapmail] Merging associations

[Joril Andersen]

Hi,

yes, thank you for a long and good answer :) Everything was clear!
In tinyTIM, you have a boolean argument ; modify. I assumed this was to 
indentify if the merging was with 2 topic maps or just withnin the same 
topic map. However, you only set the rolesPlayed in the merging topic A, if 
modify is true.Shouldn't this happen anyhow?

>
>Item identifiers are always absolute. They are resolved against a
>locator. [...]"tuesday" becomes
>"http://www.example.org/tm/my-tm#tuesday".

Yes, so then, two topics in different topic maps will never have the same 
item identifier(locator)? Assuming that one should provide unique ids/base 
locator to the topic map... would it be a vaste to check for identical 
source locators in mergeIn(TopicMap)? Have I understood this correct?And 
when merging 2 topics from different topic maps, the merged topic will 
contain a source locator, indicating it is merged...?

The getReference() method in Locator, returns the "tuesday", and the 
getNotation() returns the absolute path?


I see that in the TMAPI, they write in the mergIn(Topic) method that:
"to replace the other Topic wherever it is used as a typing or scoping 
topic"...
Do you have any clue how to 'get' the topics that have 'other' topic as type 
or scope?


-Joril

Joril Andersen
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