External linkbases

I would like to confirm my understanding of how one might use a 
linkbase.

Suppose I have a collection of documents. I have an element <tool 
ref="XXX"/> which can appear in these documents. Somewhere in the 
collection, I also have one or several documents which contain more 
information about the tools (picture, how to use...).
I want to make hyperlinks between my <tool> elements and the tool 
descriptions.

I think I could do this by making one extended link for each tool and 
storing them in a linkbase. All of my documents would reference this 
linkbase. For example, the link for my XXX tool would look like this 
(if I didn't use any attribute defaults, which I certainly would) :
<tool.link xlink:type="extended">
  <tool.ref xlink:type="locator" xlink:role="ref" 
xlink:href="#xptr(//tool[@ref='XXX'])"/>
  <tool.desc xlink:type="locator" xlink:role="descrip" 
xlink:href="tooldesc1.xml"/>
  <tool.arc xlink:type="arc" xlink:from="ref" xlink:to="descrip"/>
</tool.link>

My question is: will the href on my tool.ref element 
"#xptr(//tool[@ref='XXX'])" do what I want, which is to treat all of 
the tool elements with an attribute ref whose value is XXX as link 
sources? I would like this to work for any document in the collection, 
without having to explicitly name each document in the href.

Thanks
Karen

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