Indesign CS3: Variable content and Excell

Question

Hello everyone!
I need to create an A5 spread booklet that contains price lists and  product specifications. (see example.) The content will be available in  different languages and for different regions.
The content on the left is always the same, the content in the tables  on the right is variable. (Price differences between Canada,  Germany, France or even North- and South France etc.)
I'd love to be able to "data merge" the content into the tables. But I  do not how to combine datamerging and Tables. Heck I'm not even sure if  that's the preferred way of doing things.
Another kicker, I don't always know the amount of rows/columns needed  beforehand.
Example:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee108/BiefstukFriet/voorbeeldautomatischtabelcontentaan.jpg
I reckon there is no need for reinventing the wheel. Can you guys to  help me out?
Thanks!
Jaime

Answer 1

I´ve delved into XML and have written the code shown below.
I've been able to import all the data into a  bunch of replicated text frames using tags .
But  I've been unable to repeat the process with Tables. On top of that,  when adding a Tag to text in a table, a couple of new Tags are created,  like "Cell", "Story" and "Table". I'm not sure what use they are, as  they're not listed in my XML code.
Is it not possible to populate a table in this manner, or am I missing something?
<?xml version="1.0″ encoding="UTF-8″ standalone="yes"?>
<Article01>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0211</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 1</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0212</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 2</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0213</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 3</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0214</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 4</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0215</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 5</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0216</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 6</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0217</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 7</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0218</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 8</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0219</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 9</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
    <ArticleData>
        <ArticleNumber>GH0220</ArticleNumber>
        <Description>Lely Bla Bla Bla XX 10</Description>
        <Price>20.000</Price>
    </ArticleData>
</Article01>