Minor Dexlib infrastructure issues

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Currently, it is difficult to see that there may be an issue raised against part of a template in dexlib. The following issues have been raised (under the TLSS program) to treat issues for templates in a consistent manner as other issues.

NB to see infrastructure issues in Dexlib go to the menu items and click on "Tools", then (under Issue logs) click on "Infrastructure Issues",

TJT-2: Within the templateX/dvlp/issues.xml body, the list of possible field types available for an issue is not synchronised with the sections found within a template. Hence it is not possible to target the respective section where the issue arises; e.g. the fields such as Model Diagrams, Input Parameters, Reference Parameters, Instantiation path, Instance Diagrams and Characterizations. Those supported field sections which are available within templates (e.g. Cover and Contents) do not appear to load the respective issue when one of those fields is targetted.

TJT-3: Given that a template may be placed "in situ" (inside the capability whose functionality is supported by the template), it would seem natural that any issues within a template that was shown "in situ", would also be visible "in situ". Hence the capability should also refer (or collect) the template issues as well as the template(s).

TJT-4: Issues defined against a template (within templateX/dvlp/issues.xml), do not appear within the list of issues returned from the DEXLIB menu item "Tools", "All issues" option. I assume that template issues are equally valid issues and should be visible here.

TJT-5: Issues defined against a template (within templateX/dvlp/issues.xml), do not appear to be accounted for in the Dexlib masterlist of capabilities (dexlib menu Tools/Capabililty Summary), where the table provides a total of all the issues for a specific capability. Given that the templates are visible "in situ" for a capability, should not the template issues also form part of the overall issues for that capability? If not, should the table have additional rows/columns to provide a place for the fact that a template (which implement the functionality of a capability), may have an issue?

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