Export InDesign File Peices

I am working with an InDesign file and would like to be able to programatically work with the content after the document has been created.  Is there any way to export InDesign documents to a text based format which has the coordinates of the content within the file.  Essentially I'm looking for a way to grab the links out of the file along with their positions and sizes.

Good morning.
Most of the time, people who want to programmatically work with InDesign using it's scripting features. It has a very detailed object model that is scriptable in JavaScript in a cross-platform fashion, and also in AppleScript on Macs and VBscript under Windows. It's generally the best way to accomplish automation tasks, rather than trying to parse InDesign's files.
That said, you can export to IDML (in CS4 and CS5), or to INX in CS3. Both are XML-based formats where you can pull out individual objects and their coordinates. INX is an XML file directly. IDML is actually a ZIP archive of multiple XML files. Adobe provides documentation for both.

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