Given a string convert it into an array of name/value objects

escapeAttributeValues.js

function escapeAttributeValues(attr, aAttrNode) {
  let div = aAttrNode.ownerDocument.createElement("div");
  div.innerHTML = "<div " + attr + "></div>";

  var attributes=[];
  var el = div.childNodes[0];
  for (var i=0, l=el.attributes.length; i<l; i++){
      let attr = el.attributes.item(i)
      attributes.push({name:attr.nodeName, value: attr.nodeValue});
  }

  return attributes;
}