Automate creation of Pages documents from Numbers or delimited text file?

I'm just trying to find a way of automating my processes a bit.
Basically, you can assume I have information in a Number's document like this:
File Name
Headers
1-FileName
Some Title with Capitlization I Need to Keep
Subheading 1
Subheading 2
Subheading 3
2-DifferentName
Some Title with Capitlization I Need to Keep
Subheading 1
Subheading 2
Subheading 3Subheading 4
... Or in a text document like this:
1-FileName
Some Title with Capitlization I Need to Keep
Subheading 1
Subheading 2
Subheading 3
2-DifferentName
Some Title with Capitlization I Need to Keep
Subheading 1
Subheading 2
Subheading 3
Subheading 4
====
I need to turn it into separate Pages documents such that I have (in this case, 2) documents in a folder
1-FileName.pages
2-DifferentName.pages
Where each document has the title and subheading already in it and it doesn't matter how many documents I need to make.
Any suggestions, help, straight up answers?
I really appreciate any help you can provide! orz

The APIs for file conversion are only available to plugins - they are not exposed to COM APIs. You can certainly write a custom plugin to handle this and then call it from your VB app. Plugins are written in C/C++.
Leonard

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