Goal 5 states that a document's identity survives a round trip only through the lossless pair #150

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rendered document sees or follows, its text, images and link targets. Content the document only
references is marked where it stood, by a note that reads as the converter's and names what was
left out. The lossy pair creates and exports; it never saves back over the document it read —
identity (task, mention, media ids) lives only in the lossless pair.
a document's identity (task, mention, media ids) survives a round trip only through the lossless
pair.
6. **What happens is what the audience expects.** Where the goals leave a choice, a conversion
takes the one its audience would predict, reading the input as written.
7. **Failures are values.** Nothing throws, and `code` is a closed list — as much a contract as