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ispyisail 2ef2b7cec1 Document master/slave/terminal linking, the feature nothing in the collection uses
The element editor can declare a master's contact budget, cap how many
slaves may attach, mark a terminal as isolating a potential, and keep an
element out of the BOM. None of it was documented anywhere, and the
measured result is that none of it is used: of the 6918 elements in the
10_electric collection, 0 declare slaveContactGroups and 0 declare
max_slaves; no shipped example project uses auxiliary1-4.

Adds element_linking (EN/FR/DE) as a guide, and turns the one-line
kindInformations and elementInformations reference stubs into the actual
XML vocabulary, taken from ElementData::kindInfoToXml/kindInfoFromXml.

Records two traps worth knowing: max_slaves counts slave elements rather
than contacts, and potential_isolating / auto_num_locked /
exclude_from_bom are compared against the exact string "true".
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