Pipe xmp data into indesign document

Hi there!
My situation is: My InDes plugin calls a server-script which returns XMP-Data as text format.
What I want to do is: To append the XMP-Data without any local file operations to the XMP section of my InDes. document.
My problem is: Class MetadataPreference only provides a append method, which needs a local XMP file as an object.
Is there any way to wrap the text data, which comes from the server, into a file object? The only way, as I understand it, is to get the data from the server as a file and use this one with the append method.
Would be very nice if anyone has a good idea to get this working without local file operations.
Thanks in advance

This question might get more traction in the InDesign scripting forums. In general, if you can do it with ExtendScript, you should be able to do it with ActionScript. Also, you might want to look into the InDesign Host Adapters which allows you to get the XMP from a document, here's a recent question on the topic: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4008254.
Does that help any?

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