Sphinx config should not have pathlib instances

During the implementation of https://github.com/eclipse-score/docs-as-code/pull/283 I observed that pathlib instances are created in the Sphinx configuration.
Affected path `needs.external_needs[0].json_path`.
Those can not be reflected in a declarative configuration such as TOML.

Paths should be stored as strings to be loadable from external TOML files.
It also makes sense for configuration pickling that Sphinx does for incremental builds.

Trace the Sphinx configuration handling for needs.external_needs[0].json_path, including the implementation discussed in pull request 283. Verify how the value is created and loaded, then confirm that configuration values remain strings and can be represented in external TOML and incremental-build pickling.

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