1. With Office 2003, is it possible to programmatically create a Microsoft Word document on the fly using XML for both the structure and content? If not, is this possible with the forthcoming Office 12 edition?

thanks.

Yes, it's quite possible. You can save a Word document as XML to see the WordProcessingML Word generates, but when creating a document you don't need all of that.

Word's XML vocabulary - WordProcessingML - is documented on microsoft.com. "Office 2003 XML" from O'Reilly discusses quite a few of the ins-and-outs, and tells you exactly what you do need in order to generate a document Word 2003 can interpret correctly.