In BCF XML, TopicType and TopicStatus are marked as required: * https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-XML/blob/bc48611d0d7a1587f028a2b69677a1aafd5cd0a8/Schemas/markup.xsd#L118-L119 * https://github.com/buildingSMART/BCF-XML/tree/release_3_0/Documentation#topic In the BCF API, they're optional. We should probably make it the same in both standards.