Convert text file to table on Import

We have a lot of tables, that we'd like to maintain outside of FrameMaker (we're using FM9). I've been trying to figure out the best way to do it, and using the Import>File>Convert option seems like the best.
However, my question is what is best practice for the type of files we use? At first it seemed like using Excel and saving as a .csv or tab-delimited text file would be easiest. But there doesn't seem to be a .csv convert option and setting "," as the delimiter means we can't use commas inside the cell content. And it seems to import tab-delimited cells that contain a comma inside quotes.
It seems like the other option would be to use HTML for the table content. We are new to all this stuff, so using HTML would add to the learning curve, but I can push it through if it's best practice/will make the cleanest conversions. Or is there a way to use Excel that converts cleanly that I just haven't figured out?
Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Last year, based upon a comment on this forum, I imported an Excel table into a structured FrameMaker document by copy. FrameMaker created the table and applied its own version of a structure. For example, row elements were named ROW, cell elements were named CELL, etc. Because my table structure used different names, I had to change them to make the structure valid. There may have been some subtle issues with the table element itself. It was not clean but it got the job done.
Regarding Michael's suggestion about XML, I DID try this once, and it worked fine. The exported XML from Excel was simple and clean. The XSLT was therefore easy to write. If you have lots of tables to do, this might be the best way to go. It may take some work to get it working correctly, but once it is, subsequent work will be minimized.
Regarding XML from Excel, I was using the old Excel format xls. I have not worked with the newer xlsx format, which IS based upon XML. If you are using xlsx, I would be sure to export as XML and not "save" as XML (not sure what the command would be) in order to avoid getting all the XML used in newer Excel to store formatting and other meta information.
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d           NUMBER;
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7369                  SMITH     CLERK    7902                  17/12/1980 00:00:00800                                         20
7499                  ALLEN     SALESMAN 7698                  20/02/1981 00:00:001600                  300                   30
7521                  WARD      SALESMAN 7698                  22/02/1981 00:00:001250                  500                   30
7566                  JONES     MANAGER 7839                  02/04/1981 00:00:002975                                        20
7654                  MARTIN    SALESMAN 7698                  28/09/1981 00:00:001250                  1400                  30
7698                  BLAKE     MANAGER 7839                  01/05/1981 00:00:002850                                        30
7782                  CLARK     MANAGER 7839                  09/06/1981 00:00:002450                                        10
7788                  SCOTT     ANALYST 7566                  19/04/1987 00:00:003000                                        20
7839                  KING      PRESIDENT                      17/11/1981 00:00:005000                                        10
7844                  TURNER    SALESMAN 7698                  08/09/1981 00:00:001500                  0                     30
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7902                  FORD      ANALYST 7566                  03/12/1981 00:00:003000                                        20
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