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ispyisail 0d08a4e265 Make Diagram::toXml() serialize elements and conductors deterministically
Saving an unmodified project produced a different byte stream on
every run: QGraphicsScene::items() returns items in stacking order,
and ties between same-Z items follow the scene's internal index --
not any content-derived order -- so it isn't reproducible across
process runs. The legacy terminal-id table inherits the same
instability, since ids are assigned sequentially in element order.

Sort list_elements and list_conductors into a deterministic order
before serializing, using a key built from data that's actually
stable across loads (position), not Element::uuid()/Conductor::uuid():
for an item with no persisted uuid attribute, fromXml() invents a
fresh random one on every load, so sorting by uuid would still be
non-deterministic across process runs for any legacy file -- which
this corpus has plenty of.

Also fixes a second, related source of byte-level non-determinism
found while verifying the above: Conductor::toXml() unconditionally
wrote m_uuid back out, including the synthetic value fromXml() just
invented for a conductor with no uuid attribute in the file. Every
conductor in every example project checked has no persisted uuid at
all, so this alone meant no project with conductors could ever
resave identically, regardless of ordering. Conductor gets a
m_persist_uuid flag, false only when the uuid it's holding was
synthesized rather than loaded, so toXml() stops writing a value
that was never meant to be permanent.

Deliberately NOT applying the same uuid-persistence fix to Element:
element uuids are cross-referenced by other elements' <links_uuids>
blocks for master/slave/report linking (element.cpp, tmp_uuids_link,
matched by elmt->uuid() == stored uuid on load). Making an element's
own uuid non-persistent would silently break that match for any
linked element without one already -- a real regression, not a
theoretical one. Left as a smaller, separate residual: 1-6 elements
per project across the corpus (a few tenths of a percent) still get
a fresh uuid on each load, same class of bug, needs the link-aware
version of this fix instead of this one.

Verified against 8 example projects (the ones with conductors, plus
the two zero-conductor control cases from FINDINGS.md F002), 5
resaves each in isolated HOME/XDG environments:
- Element and conductor ORDER: 0 churning sections across the whole
  corpus (previously the majority of diagrams in industrial.qet,
  m_000.qet and tremie_vibrante.qet churned on every run).
- Conductor uuid VALUES: 0 churn (previously every conductor in
  every project, since none have a persisted uuid).
- 6 of 8 projects are now byte-for-byte identical (md5) across all 5
  runs. The remaining 2 (industrial.qet, m_000.qet) differ only in
  the handful of element uuids covered by the known Element residual
  above -- confirmed by checking those uuids specifically, not
  inferred.
- Element/conductor counts before and after resave match exactly on
  every project (no data loss from the sort).

Fixes #754.
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