Hi all, my first time here so please be kind

I have been challenged with the task of finding a way to have an HTML webpage "automatically update" itself with specific data.
The data will most likely be pulled from our database and saved as a CSV, XLS or TXT file.
I have found how to link the content to the webpage with:
<link rel="File-List" href="collections.xls" type="application/excel">
The only problem I am currently having is how to show data from the linked spreadsheet, I am beginning to beleive this isnt possible.

We are running the webpage in IE7 and is hosted internally as an Intranet site.

Would be grateful if anybody has some insight on how to accomplish this, even if some Javascripting or other language is needed.

Thanks in advance

Ibzy

Well, you can't do what you want to do with Markup, so I'm moving this to the Server-side Scripting forum.