Mail merge type of App

[fiddy]

I am hoping i can get some ideas of the best ways to do the following;

I will have an xml file with properties in it, these properties relate to fields in a word document that need to be replaced (by the xml values).

If i create the word template to hold the fields as actual Word Fields, can i write a vb.net app to traverse the xml file, and for each property, locate the corresponding field in the template and replace it with the value in the xml file ?

The vb.net app does not need a front-end, so it'll be a console app, and will take just create a new document from the template, with the modified fields.

Any info or ideas/sample code greatly appreciated.