I will prefix this by saying I have quite limited Swift and SwiftUI experience, so there might be some obvious things that I have missed.

My problem is split into multiple areas of concern

1. I want to render a text link using markdown within a Text view in SwiftUI
2. I want the label for this link to contain an image alongside some text so that the text and image are both clickable
3. I need this to be done inside a Text view which I can then append to the end of another Text view.

Some context

I have several paragraphs of text, each one coming from a specific source which I want to provide a link to. The link should be inline with the text and at the end of each paragraph, and should be in the format "Source <icon>". I believe SwiftUI’s support for markdown is the easiest way to achieve this, as it allows a simple Text view to contain a hyperlink by doing: Text(.init("[Source](https://example.com)")). This has got me quite far, but I am missing the crucial step of including the icon as part of the link label. As of now, I have been forced to add the icon after the actual link text as per the example below.

So my question boils down to: Is there a way to render an image inside a markdown string in SwiftUI?

Simplified example of my code setup

import SwiftUI

struct Paragraph {
  text: String
  url: String
}

struct ParagraphView: View {
  let paragraph: Paragraph

  var body: some View {
    Text(paragraph.text)

    // Less than ideal solution I have currently
    + Text(.init(" [Source]((paragraph.url)) "))

    + Text(Image(systemName: "star")) // Example icon
  }
}

Ideally, I would like to do something like this

struct ParagraphView: View {
  let paragraph: Paragraph

  var body: some View {
    Text(paragraph.text)

    + Text(.init(" [Source (IMAGE)]((paragraph.url))"))
  }
}

I have tried using both AttributedString and NSAttributedString to achieve this

struct ParagraphView: View {
  let paragraph: Paragraph

  var markdown: String {
    let str = NSMutableAttributedString(string: " [Source ")

    let iconAttachment = NSTextAttachment()
    iconAttachment.image = UIImage(systemName: "star")
    let iconText = NSAttributedString(attachment: iconAttachment)

    str.append(iconText)
    str.append(NSAttributedString(string: "]((paragraph.url))"))

    return str.string
  }

  var body: some View {
    Text(paragraph.text)

    // Link works, but image is not rendered
    + Text(.init(markdown))
  }
}