Setting a way to open a PDF to a specific section from HTML?

I currently use InDesign CS4 to create technical manuals. And I have the latest Acrobat.
We now want to create context-sensitive help from the same content. One way would be to export the content to XHTML. But I think I'd get better looking results if I could get the HTML to open the PDF to a named location in the PDF. For example, I'd like to add a tag called "Feature X" in InDesign that is retained when the PDF is generated, and then be able to add something like <src="mydoc.pdf" openAt="Feature X"> in the HTML. Then I'd hope to see mydoc.PDF open to the location of that tag (and not to page 1).
Is such a capability available in inDesign? And if not in InDesign, then can the tag be added in Acrobat?
Even if I cannot do this with a named tag, is there any way for HTML to open a PDF to a specified page? And can this be set up in InDesign so that I don't lose the location every time I generate an updated PDF?
Thanks for any help,
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