Tagged Text and Hyperlinks

I am attempting to create a document with two sections that are generated as tagged text via a database. This has worked for years. Now the client wants me to link a name in the first section with the appropriate name/description in the second section. The file will then be saved as a PDF. Seems pretty straight forward.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get the right set of commands to make this work with tagged text. Whenever I want to do something new with tagged text I would just build a sample manually and then export the document to tagged text. From there it is pretty straight forward to reproduce.
When I try this with my current sample, the exported files do not contain any code for the linking. The destination text appears to have some addition tags that reference them as the destinations, but the source text has no additional tags. I tried Adobe support, but they just said sure it works, but since you are doing scripting we can't help! I haven't even gotten that far yet! I even sent them the sample files and they ignored them.
Has anyone done this or proven that it can't be done?

Marc,
I'm a newbie with InDesign. I'm trying to do something similar as you are. And I'm not having much luck with Hypertext links. Have you made and progress? I've just converted some jobs from FrameMaker to InDesign. (My customer's request). I had much better luck with FrameMaker.
Thanks,
Roger

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Ok.. After some resarch I find out the guy who created this made use of the Twitter API.. Since I don't know how to do that and
can't find straight answers that's not an option for me...
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https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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Hold on, I tried exporting tagged text and then bringing it back in. It's not dropping the forced line break. It's exporting it as a single Line Feed (hex 0a). And it interprets that as a forced line break when importing back in. My text editor ignores Line Feeds. I had to look at it in a hex editor to see the 0a.
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I'm building tables of contents programmatically and save them as tagged text for importing into InDesign (CS3) for later export to PDF.
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