From 2e329bd45afbef87ec3c05e461d8b7bd5321866c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sina Atalay <79940989+sinaatalay@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 18:52:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Don't fail on empty links

---
 src/rendercv/renderer/templater/markdown_parser.py | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/rendercv/renderer/templater/markdown_parser.py b/src/rendercv/renderer/templater/markdown_parser.py
index 1ad62efa..ac986e74 100644
--- a/src/rendercv/renderer/templater/markdown_parser.py
+++ b/src/rendercv/renderer/templater/markdown_parser.py
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
 import markdown
 import markdown.core
 
-from rendercv.exception import RenderCVUserError
-
 
 def to_typst_string(elem: Element) -> str:
     """Recursively convert XML Element tree to Typst markup string.
@@ -48,14 +46,9 @@ def to_typst_string(elem: Element) -> str:
 
             case "a":
                 # Link: [text](url) -> #link("url")[text]
-                href = child.get("href", "")
+                href = child.get("href") if child.get("href") else "https://example.com"
                 inner = to_typst_string(child)
                 child_content = f'#link("{href}")[{inner}]'
-                if not href:
-                    message = (
-                        f"Link url is not provided for [{inner}](url) in the YAML file!"
-                    )
-                    raise RenderCVUserError(message)
 
             case "div":
                 child_content = (