Proper broken link handler

[lucascool12]

Context

It would be nice if there was an easy way to have a function resolve link references that haven't been registered (similar to pulldown-cmark https://docs.rs/pulldown-cmark/0.13.1/pulldown_cmark/struct.Parser.html#method.new_with_broken_link_callback).
So we can programmatically decide the href of something like this:

[broken_link]

I didn't find anything in the documentation describing how to properly do this, and the only work around I found was to copy and paste the link function in rules_inline (

markdown-it-py/markdown_it/rules_inline/link.py

Line 7 in 8933147

def link(state: StateInline, silent: bool) -> bool:

) and whenever false is returned when parseReference is true to put some custom logic to try to resolve the reference.
And then register this rule with:

md = markdown_it.MarkdownIt()
def custom_link(state, silent):
    ....
md.inline.ruler.disable("link")
md.inline.ruler.push("custom_link",  custom_link)

It would be very nice if there was some blessed route to be able to do this.

Proposal

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