Create Indesign book from paths in an excel sheet

Hello All
I have started to learn some scripting, and want to know if it is possible to read information from Excel sheet? In this case it is paths to Ind files.
Today we are working with several documents which we compile into a book, this to create custom-made manuals for our customers. The script I'm looking for or will try to create will use these paths from the excel sheet to compile an Indesign book.
Any tips where I can find information about similar tasks.
Please respond

Thanks for your advices.
So if I understood it right it is impossible for Java or VB through Indesign to access information located within sheets in an Excel document. That is too bad.
We don't have the possibility to convert the .xls to for example .csv, becouse of .csv does not support more than one sheet. An SQL database could be a possible solution, but this shouldn’t either work?
What I don’t really understand is why you can merge information from an excel sheet into an Indesign page, but not collect strings from an excel sheet when running a script.

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