This adds a feature to add sub-navigation links to the package summary page, 
but ended up more like a refactoring of the code to generate sub-navigation 
links. The reason for this is that generation of these links was highly 
idiosyncratic. Every writer class that wanted to create sub-nav links deposited 
something of itself in the `Navigation` instance which was then responsible for 
generating these links. The new code introduces a `Navigation.SubNavLinks` 
interface that allows writers to provide a list of links into their page 
content.

As for the new feature in the package summary page itself, I chose an approach 
that is a bit different from the one we use for other types of pages. Instead 
of displaying the inactive label instead of the link when a section is not 
present on the page, only the active links are displayed. The reason for this 
is that the package summary page contains so many potential summary tables that 
the sub-nav area gets quite crowded if they are all shown. Just showing the 
actually present pieces looked better to me.

Like in other sub-nav sections, the link labels sometimes use abbreviated terms 
such as "RELATED" instead of "RELATED PACKAGES" and "ENUMS" instead of "ENUM 
CLASSES". The full list of potential package sub-nav links is as follows:

    Package: Description | Related | Interfaces | Classes | Enums | Records | 
Exceptions | Errors | Annotations

An important implementation note is that I moved the code to compute package 
summary contents from `PackageSummaryBuilder` to `PackageWriterImpl`. The 
reason for this is that the contents are required to determine which links to 
create, and I didn't want to re-compute this information that was previously 
computed on the fly in the builder class. The various summary items are now 
stored in collection fields in the writer class. 

I have tried to add all the new properties and constants in a sensible place, 
which usually means alphabetic order within the sub-group of related entries.

I chose to keep the markup structure of the package summary page mostly 
unchanged, adding only `id` attributes to the existing `<li>` elements for each 
summary table. I decided against adding `class` attributes as well as it seems 
very unlikely to me that somebody would want to apply different styles to the 
various summary tables. Even without them, it could be done using the `id`s.

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Commit messages:
 - JDK-8263507: Simplify list creation
 - JDK-8263507: Rename some methods and add some docs
 - JDK-8263507: Add links to page sections in sub-navigation of package 
summaries

Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3413/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=3413&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8263507
  Stats: 1106 lines in 24 files changed: 525 ins; 480 del; 101 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3413.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/3413/head:pull/3413

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3413

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