docs: cross-reference json_view and json_document for 3.13.0 (#5892)

* docs: cross-reference json_view and json_document for 3.13.0

Document the new zero-copy document/view API across the docs: add a
"Documents and views" section to the basic_json API hub linking to all
specializations, point parsing/conversion/modifying pages to the view-based
alternatives, add document/view sections to feature pages, update the
landing page to mention json_view.hpp/json_literals.hpp, and cross-link
debugging/exceptions.

Also document wide-string inputs (and ill-formed UTF-16/32 rejection),
add parse/accept examples for wide strings, fix related doc gaps, and
align features/parsing and FAQ with the added support.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: fix article before std::istream in FAQ

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: clarify document inputs, decoding, get<T>() and editing

Address review comments: say which inputs are borrowed and that a wide
string pointer is an extra input, which values are decoded during parsing,
that get<T>() reads only built-in types directly, all forms of set() and
that the document's insert() is array-only, and how to store wide strings.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: integers are converted while parsing a document

Also say "They accept every input" in basic_json_document::parse.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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@@ -21,17 +21,19 @@ static basic_json_document parse(IteratorType first, IteratorType last,
Both overloads accept the same JSON text as [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md), with the same
`ignore_comments`/`ignore_trailing_commas` options, but build a [`basic_json_document`](index.md) (a flat index into
the input) instead of a tree of `BasicJsonType` values. They take the same inputs as `BasicJsonType::parse()`. Byte
inputs that stay alive can be borrowed; all others (streams, `#!cpp FILE*`, wide characters, non-contiguous
iterators) are read into a copy that the document owns -- see the Notes. Use [`parse_copy()`](parse_copy.md) to get an
owned copy of a borrowable input as well.
the input) instead of a tree of `BasicJsonType` values. They accept every input `BasicJsonType::parse()` takes, and in
addition a pointer to a null-terminated wide string (which `BasicJsonType::parse()` rejects). Contiguous inputs of
single-byte characters that stay alive can be borrowed; all others (streams, `#!cpp FILE*`, wide characters, which
must be converted to UTF-8, and non-contiguous iterators) are read into a copy that the document owns -- see the
Notes. Use [`parse_copy()`](parse_copy.md) to get an owned copy of a borrowable input
as well.
## Template parameters
`InputType`
: A compatible input, for instance:
- a `#!cpp std::string`, `#!cpp std::string_view`, or a C-style array of single-byte characters
- a `#!cpp std::string`, a `#!cpp std::string_view` (C++17), or a C-style array of single-byte characters
- a pointer to a null-terminated string of single-byte characters (`#!cpp char`, `#!cpp signed char`,
`#!cpp unsigned char`, `#!cpp std::uint8_t`)
- a container for which `#!cpp obj.data()` and `#!cpp obj.size()` give contiguous single-byte access, e.g.
@@ -47,6 +49,10 @@ owned copy of a borrowable input as well.
`#!cpp std::string::iterator`; the iterators of single-byte characters are borrowed or read like the byte inputs
above, those of wide characters are converted to UTF-8
Ill-formed UTF-16 and UTF-32 sequences are rejected: a lone surrogate, a high surrogate that is not followed by its low
surrogate, and a code point above `U+10FFFF` all yield a
[`parse_error.101`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error101).
## Parameters
`input` (in)
@@ -155,3 +161,5 @@ buffer of a given length, pass a pair of pointers: `#!cpp parse(ptr, ptr + len)`
## Version history
- Added in version 3.13.0.
- Ill-formed UTF-16 and UTF-32 input (a lone surrogate, a high surrogate that is not followed by its low surrogate, or
a code point above `U+10FFFF`) is rejected with `parse_error.101`.