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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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
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@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Read from input and generate SAX events
respectively as UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. If `SentinelType` differs from `IteratorType`, it must be comparable to
the iterator type with `operator!=`.
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).
The SAX event lister must follow the interface of [`json_sax`](../json_sax/index.md).
## Template parameters
@@ -42,8 +46,12 @@ The SAX event lister must follow the interface of [`json_sax`](../json_sax/index
- a `FILE` pointer
- a C-style array of characters
- a pointer to a null-terminated string of single byte characters
- a `std::string` or a `std::string_view` (C++17)
- a container `obj` for which `begin(obj)` and `end(obj)` produce a valid pair of iterators
(as found via ADL or member functions, with semantics compatible to `std::begin` and `std::end`)
- wide characters (`wchar_t`, `char16_t`, `char32_t`), which are converted to UTF-8: a wide string object
(`std::wstring`, `std::u16string`, `std::u32string`) or an array (e.g. a wide string literal); a pointer to a
null-terminated wide string (e.g. `std::u16string::c_str()`) is not supported
`IteratorType`
: a compatible iterator type for overload (2); a pair of character iterators whose `value_type` is an integral type
@@ -160,6 +168,9 @@ use the same file with stdio functions, but it must not wait for another thread
([`JSON_DISABLE_STREAM_BULK_SCAN`](../macros/json_disable_stream_bulk_scan.md)).
- Parsing from a `FILE*` locks the file once instead of once per character in version 3.13.0
([`JSON_DISABLE_UNLOCKED_FILE_IO`](../macros/json_disable_unlocked_file_io.md)).
- 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` in version 3.13.0; before that, some such
sequences were accepted or ended the input silently.
!!! warning "Deprecation"