Place graphic in InDesign document via Excel sheet

Question

Hi,
I'm new to scripting in InDesign, but need to work on my skills;)
In school, I already gathered some basic skills in JavaScript, therefore JavaScript is my choice to write a script for InDesign. Even though the environment is Mac OS X and InDesign CS3, AppleScript might be easier to code in?
Here is the problem:
An Excel sheet contains a list of names of .eps files generated from SAP. My goal is to create a script that loads the .eps files in this sheet from the location they're saved into the InDesign document and place them in the designated frames.
My first question: Is this even possible?
Currently I'm testing and reading some manuals and refernces, but I would be happy for every tiny bit of hint or help or how to get started, so, thanks a lot for your help in advance!
Greets,
Alex

Answer 1

Thank you for your help!
After playing around some time, I figured out, it would be easier for me to do an XML Import using a XSLT file.
Unfortunately the XML file generated by Excel is very complex, so I have some issues to extract the needed content.
Has anybody experience in handling the Microsoft Excel XML?
Here is the XML:
<Row>
<Cell ss:StyleID="s23">
<Data ss:Type="String"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="DATA1"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TESTKEYS"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TEST0"/>
</Cell>
<Cell ss:StyleID="s23">
<Data ss:Type="String">4</Data>
<NamedCell ss:Name="DATA2"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TESTKEYS"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TEST0"/>
</Cell>
<Cell ss:StyleID="s23">
<Data ss:Type="String">1</Data>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TESTKEYS"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="DATA3"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TEST0"/>
</Cell>
<Cell ss:StyleID="s21">
<Data ss:Type="String">A63027A01BL</Data>
<NamedCell ss:Name="DATA4"/>
<NamedCell ss:Name="TEST0"/>
</Cell>
</Row>
And this is my XSLT, which just generates the complete content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-datatypes" xmlns:err="http://www.w3.org/2005/xqt-errors" xmlns:zuf="http://www.beispiel.com/zuf/3.0" xmlns:pri="http://www.pmn.net/prn/PntI" xmlns:ws="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet">
     <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
      <xsl:template match="Workbook/Worksheet/Table/Row/Cell[NamedCell[@ss:Name='DATA4']]">
          <Bild>
               <xsl:apply-templates select="Data">
               </xsl:apply-templates>
          </Bild>
     </xsl:template>
     <xsl:template match="Workbook/Worksheet/Table/Row/Cell/NamedCell[@ss:Name='DATA4']">
          <Bild>
               <xsl:value-of select="Workbook/Worksheet/Table/Row/Cell[NamedCell[@ss:Name='DATA4']]/text()">
               </xsl:value-of>
          </Bild>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>