Indesign cs4 api

Hi,
I am an Adobe Flex developer. I have an application which needs to read data from xml file and do some manipulation over this data.
Now my problem is, there will be somebody who will design screens and themes in Indesign. I want to some how get data like coordinates, positions and actual item data (say for example screen contains a canvas having some text, couple of images and/or some buttons.) from this screen. So does Indesign provides any kind of api that I can pull all these data from it. I might not have understood the complete meaning of Indesign, but I have this need.
Guys please throw some light....

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