Excel 2011 VBA library question

Hi
I've been asked to consider modifications to a series of Excel 2007/2010
workbooks in order to have them run on a Mac in Excel 2011. The workbooks
have been developed on Windows over a number of years, and today run on
Win7, either 32 or 64 bit, using either Excel 2007 or Excel 2010.
The particulars are that the workbooks have a significant amount of VBA
code that that is much more complex that recorded macros. The thing that
has me stumped is that the code uses DOMDOC60 and XMLHTTP60 classes from
the "Microsoft XML, 6.0" library as it is shown in the References dialog,
aka C:\Windows\Sustem32\msxml6.dll. The code is used to access webDAV servers
to retrieve and process XML files. All the other reference libraries used are
the same names on both platforms, so I expect that there might be some IFDEF
code to get the paths and the calls right, Mac v. Windows.
The big issue is that I can't find any libraries or documentation that
shows what to do on the Mac to get the equivalent classes. I'm new to
developing anything on a Mac, but I beleive that the functionality that the
code performs, i.e. GETs and PUTs, as well as XML parsing (nodes, nodeslists,
etc.) must be done in other apps on Mac.
The question is, what do I need to do to replace the lost functionality so
that I can make the workbooks functional on the Mac?
Your advice and help is appreciated.

Hi Roger,
I've just landed in pretty much the same spot you were in last November. I've written some VBA macros for Office 2010/Windows and am now trying to figure out how to make them work on Mac Offie 2011. I'm using XMLHTTP and ADODB.stream to encode a file in base64 and post it to a server. ALL the stuff I used to make this happen on Windows seems to be missing. Did you ever figure out a solution for your problem? Thanks.
Dave

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