On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> What about to translate doc-format into odt, as used by openoffice?
> These are xml-files basically AFAIK, which may be set under a VC- 
> system
> like bazaar, RCS, whatever - and edited with emacs xml-mode.

Right, but I'm unsure how the change tracking would work that way.  In  
fact I'm pretty sure it wouldn't do the right thing...

(Also, editing the Word document as raw Docx XML (Docx is XML already)  
would sort of defeat the purpose of using Emacs.)