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>source_offset
```cpp
std::size_t source_offset() const noexcept;
```
Returns the byte offset of this value in the document's [`source()`](../basic_json_document/source.md) text, without
materializing anything.
## Return value
- For a string with no escapes, a number, `#!json true`/`#!json false`/`#!json null`, an array, or an object: the
byte offset of the first byte of the value's token (for a string: the first byte after the opening quote) in
[`source()`](../basic_json_document/source.md).
- `#!cpp static_cast<std::size_t>(-1)` for a [discarded](is_discarded.md) view, and for a string that contains
escapes -- such a string was decoded once into the document's own buffer, so there is no single byte range in
`source()` left to point at.
## Exception safety
No-throw guarantee: this function never throws exceptions.
## Complexity
Constant.
## Notes
This is a raw offset, not a length: the API does not (yet) expose how many bytes the token occupies in the source
text, so `source_offset()` alone is enough to report *where* a value came from (for an error message, for syntax
highlighting, ...) but not to slice its exact text back out of [`source()`](../basic_json_document/source.md) for a
string, whose token length is not the same as its decoded [`size()`](size.md).
## Examples
??? example
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__source_offset.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__source_offset.output"
```
## See also
- [source](../basic_json_document/source.md) - the parsed text
- [is_string](is_string.md) - return whether the value is a string
## Version history
- Added in version 3.13.0.