Document json_document and json_view

- API pages for basic_json_document and basic_json_view, one per member,
  and for the four aliases, each with an example
- features/json_view.md: the problem the view solves, ownership and
  lifetime, what matches basic_json::parse() and what differs, and when
  to choose json, ordered_json, SAX, or the view
- the examples show why one would use the view, not only how: borrowed
  vs. owned input, reading a few fields and materializing one subtree,
  reusing a document across many messages
- registered in the mkdocs navigation, llms.txt, the docset, the
  exceptions page (out_of_range.416), architecture.md, the integration
  page, and the README; the yyjson credit is added to the README and
  license.md

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# <small>nlohmann::</small>basic_json_document
<small>Defined in header `<nlohmann/json_view.hpp>`</small>
```cpp
template<typename BasicJsonType>
class basic_json_document;
```
A parsed JSON text, held as a flat index of its values (16 bytes per value) instead of a tree of `BasicJsonType`
values. Strings and numbers stay in the source text; only strings that contain escapes are decoded, into one buffer
owned by the document. [`basic_json_view`](../basic_json_view/index.md) is a read-only handle to one value of a
`basic_json_document`; [`materialize()`](../basic_json_view/materialize.md) turns a subtree back into the
`BasicJsonType` value that [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md) would have produced for it.
A document may **borrow** the text it was parsed from (the caller's buffer must then outlive the document) or **own**
it (a copy, or an rvalue `#!cpp std::string` that was moved in); see [`owns_source`](owns_source.md). `basic_json_document`
is move-only: copying a document would either duplicate a potentially large index and text, or leave two documents
claiming to borrow the same buffer, so it is disabled.
## Template parameters
`BasicJsonType`
: a specialization of [`basic_json`](../basic_json/index.md), for instance [`json`](../json.md) or
[`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md). Only 64-bit `number_integer_t`/`number_unsigned_t` types are supported; this
is checked with a `static_assert`.
## Specializations
- [**json_document**](../json_document.md) - documents of the default specialization [`json`](../json.md)
- [**ordered_json_document**](../ordered_json_document.md) - documents of [`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md)
## Member types
- **view_type** - the type of view returned by [`root()`](root.md) (`#!cpp basic_json_view<BasicJsonType>`)
- **value_t** - the JSON type enumeration, see [`basic_json::value_t`](../basic_json/value_t.md)
## Member functions
- [(constructor)](basic_json_document.md)
- [**parse**](parse.md) (_static_) - deserialize from a compatible input, borrowing or owning it as appropriate
- [**parse_copy**](parse_copy.md) (_static_) - deserialize a copy of a compatible input
- [**accept**](accept.md) (_static_) - check whether the input is valid JSON
- [**read**](read.md) - (re-)parse into this document, reusing its memory
- [**root**](root.md) - the view of the root value
- [**is_discarded**](is_discarded.md) - return whether the last parse failed
- [**source**](source.md) - the parsed text
- [**owns_source**](owns_source.md) - return whether the document holds its own copy of the text
- [**node_count**](node_count.md) - the number of index entries (values plus object keys)
- [**memory_usage**](memory_usage.md) - the number of bytes held by the document
- [**shrink_to_fit**](shrink_to_fit.md) - release unused index capacity
## Version history
- Added in version 3.13.0.