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+<?php
+/**
+ * @package     Joomla.Platform
+ * @subpackage  Utilities
+ *
+ * @copyright   Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Open Source Matters, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE
+ */
+
+defined('JPATH_PLATFORM') or die;
+
+/**
+ * JUtility is a utility functions class
+ *
+ * @package     Joomla.Platform
+ * @subpackage  Utilities
+ * @since       11.1
+ */
+class JUtility
+{
+	/**
+	 * Method to extract key/value pairs out of a string with XML style attributes
+	 *
+	 * @param   string  $string  String containing XML style attributes
+	 *
+	 * @return  array  Key/Value pairs for the attributes
+	 *
+	 * @since   11.1
+	 */
+	public static function parseAttributes($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;
+	}
+}