XML - pbm with links on interactive PDF

Hy
I'de like to maje an interactive PDF
It's a catalogue of objetcs with thumbnails and zoomed pictures of 400 references
A have an xml with this type of nodes :
My probleme is to automate insertion of links on each thumb to go to an anchor placed on the zommed picture (without making 400 anchors and 400 hyperlinks)
Anyone ever had this kind of problematic ?
L.

Here is xml code
<catalogue>
<sconces>
<images>
<image_chemin href="pt/ref115.png"/>
<image_gd href="gd/ref115.png"/>
<image_reference>ref : 115</image_reference>
<image_size>H: 25 in, W: 27 in</image_size>
</images>
<images>

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