Document Merge

I have a question if InDesign has any support for datamerge 'immediate commands'. We had an older system that would accept commands embedded in the input stream that would change the formatting of all subsequent lines. SGML types of commands the system understood we pretty common - ie <cf='century'> for changefont, <b>, <center>, etc, etc.
So, any plugins, etc?? I've seen that you can do some work with paragraph styles, but this is much more limiting that what I'm looking for.
We control the database, so this system really reduced the number of 'bases' that we maintain to merge data into, as a lot of the formatting can be handled at time of dataentry, as we can include almost anything into the fields.
Thank you in advance.

You can do this with InDesign Tagged Text. It has nothing to do with Data Merge, though, if you mean the InDesign mail-merge feature.

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Hi,
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Attaching herewith the error for reference.
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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you failed to merge documents in a SharePoint Library.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee526363(v=office.14).aspx
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I would like to merge(append) more than 1 XML documents into a single document.
I'm trying to avoid using XSLT sofar and I gone through this forum and tried the following
solution.
Eg.,

<root>
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either I get
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try this
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Merge Fields from the server

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hmmm ... not possible to copy and paste the address book locally.
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1. While working in our application, the user selects an "information dump" on the selected the employee. This dump is information from a number of different places and document types.
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