converting ms word -> anything

hi

this might sound naive but does someone know if it's at all
possible to actually read a microsoft word file and convert
it to some reasonable text format?

i imagine a simple word file only with some very basic
formatting for fonts, that i want to convert into this kind
of format:

<headline>Header</headline>
<p>Normal paragraph</p>
<bold>Bolded text</bold>

etc.

i did a little search at cpan but didn't really find anything.

thanks
../allan