Method parseAttributes

/**
 * Method to extract key/value pairs out of a string with XML style attributes
 *
 * @param   string  $string  String containing XML style attributes
 *
 * @return  array  Key/Value pairs for the attributes
 *
 * @since   1.7.0
 */
public static function parseAttributes($string)
{
    $attr = array();
    $retarray = array();
    // Let's grab all the key/value pairs using a regular expression
    preg_match_all('/([\\w:-]+)[\\s]?=[\\s]?"([^"]*)"/i', $string, $attr);
    if (\is_array($attr)) {
        $numPairs = \count($attr[1]);
        for ($i = 0; $i < $numPairs; $i++) {
            $retarray[$attr[1][$i]] = $attr[2][$i];
        }
    }
    return $retarray;
}