Jump in history in a block of text?

Is there a way to create a break in the story in a single text block? I'm working on a catalog, and we will use XML auto filling of commodity prices. Most of the products are in their own text frame with their name and their description. Some items, however, only appear under headings such as different sizes of the same product, but they have unique part numbers. The problem is that indesign requires that the history be labelled. Normally that's perfectly fine, and the story just a label of the product number. But I have problems with several numbers in a block of text. I can just create another name for the label of the story and then use the part number as a tag parent for all line items, but when we got to export the data from the spreadsheet that we won't know what products willl need this extra label. The only work arounds I can think is to separate text box for each line (who will be formatting of pain because now I have to make sure all are aligned) or I can link all the text frames in the catalog section, so it's a story... everything also a nightmare to put in shape. Is there another way that I don't know everything? I'm pretty new to InDesign, so I hope that there is an easy way to do what I want.

I hope that makes sense... I'd appreciate any help.

By definition, a story is all the text in a single frame, or set of threaded frames, so what you want to do is impossible. You may be able to anchor two stories like inline frames in a larger text block, but this doesn't make much sense to me - if yo have to get the text that you might as well stop there.

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