- rework the JSON expression system so that "astext" is called *after*
the indexing.  this is for more natural operation.
- also add cast() to the JSON expression to complement astext. This integrates
the CAST call which will be needed frequently.  Part of [ticket:2687].
- it's a little unclear how more advanced unicode attribute-access is going to go,
some quick attempts at testing yielded strange error messages from psycopg2.
- do other cross linking as mentioned in [ticket:2687].