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::basic_json_view::</small>materialize
```cpp
BasicJsonType materialize() const;
```
Builds the `BasicJsonType` value of this subtree: the value [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md) would
have produced for the same source text, allocated for the first time by this call.
## Return value
The `BasicJsonType` value of this subtree, or a discarded `BasicJsonType` value (`#!cpp BasicJsonType(value_t::discarded)`)
if the view is [discarded](is_discarded.md).
## Exception safety
Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes to the view or the document it refers to (nothing
about either is mutated by this function).
## Exceptions
May throw `#!cpp std::bad_alloc` (via `BasicJsonType`'s allocator) if constructing the result fails.
## Complexity
Linear in the size of the subtree.
## Notes
`materialize()` replays the subtree through the same SAX builder [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md)
uses internally, so the result matches it exactly -- including, for an object, that a repeated key keeps only its
last value. The replay is iterative, so it is not limited by the call stack the way a naive recursive conversion
would be; the JSON nesting depth is limited only by available memory, as for `BasicJsonType::parse()` itself.
Unlike parsing with [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) enabled, the values
produced by `materialize()` do not carry source positions: there is no lexer run during the replay to record them.
Calling `materialize()` on the same view repeatedly builds a new, independent `BasicJsonType` value each time; it
never caches the result.
## Examples
??? example
The example below skips messages that are not useful -- a discarded value, or an empty array -- using only
[`is_array()`](is_array.md) and [`empty()`](empty.md), and calls `materialize()` only for the messages that are
actually used, so no `BasicJsonType` value (and none of its per-element allocations) is ever built for the
skipped ones.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__materialize.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__materialize.output"
```
## See also
- [root](../basic_json_document/root.md) - the view of a document's root value
- [`BasicJsonType::parse`](../basic_json/parse.md) - build a `BasicJsonType` value directly from a JSON text
- [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) - source positions on parsed values (not
produced by `materialize()`)
## Version history
- Added in version 3.13.0.