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Extracting all key value pairs from "XML Like" text

Mar 2, 2011 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

You could do something like this:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml("<root " + yourString + "/>");

foreach(XmlAttribute att in doc.DocumentElement)
{
  // ... use att.Name & att.Value here
}

The drawback is it will not work if your string is not good xml. So you'll have to try if it really works for you. For example, "1212" is not a valid Xml attribute name...