Web download into indesign: anyone want an indesign programming job?

Downloading heavily tabulated and formatted copy from a web data feed. Need to get it into indesign, using the attached XML tags so that the formatting is replicated, without manual effort. Not my scene. Can anyone help?

Thanks for getting in touch Harbs.
If you go to either of the links below and log in - you will get some of the
idea of the job that we need doing.
http://www.weatherbys.net/cgi-bin/uqcgiv7.exe?_s=eol&_a=srs010&_1=3443471&_2=01002a0020407 45
*<http://www.weatherbys.net/cgi-bin/uqcgiv7.exe?_s=eol&_a=srs010&_1=3443471&_2=01002a0020407 45>
or*
http://www.weatherbys.net/cgi-bin/uqcgiv7.exe?_s=eol&_a=srs010&_1=3443471&_2=01010r0094020 09
*<http://www.weatherbys.net/cgi-bin/uqcgiv7.exe?_s=eol&_a=srs010&_1=3443471&_2=01010r0094020 09>
User id - marr6818*
Password - nn143lq
Then you will see in the list something called Darley pedigrees, click on
that. Go to race index, and then select one or all of the listed results
(ticking the box) and download selected - apparently this only works in
internet explorer.
You will download an x tags file as a text document - this is what we need
to pull into an indesign doc with the tabs and formatting intact. I attach
a pdf showing how we currently lay this data out (using a different data
provider who currently does all this for us). As you can see this is over
three columns, and needs the inclusion of wobs etc.
There is another associated job with this, which takes a little more
explanation, but is from the same website and essentially the same - though
the information is just not quite so readily set up.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
With regards
Sally
2010/1/8 Harbs. <[email protected]>
Quite a few of us could do this for you.
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I'd need to know the scope of the project and time-frame...
>
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com
Innovations in Automation
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