'; preg_match_all( '//', $str, $matches ); function transpose( $array ) { array_unshift( $array, null ); return call_user_func_array( 'array_map', $array ); } $matches = array_map( function( $current ) { $attributes = preg_split( '/\s*(\w+)="(.*?)\s*"/', $current, NULL, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE ); $transposed = transpose( array_chunk( $attributes, 2 ) ); return array_combine( $transposed[ 0 ], $transposed[ 1 ] ); }, $matches[ 1 ] ); var_dump( $matches );