diff --git a/_modules/oscap/utils.py b/_modules/oscap/utils.py
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+from lxml.etree import Element, SubElement, tostring
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+import shlex
+import re
+import datetime
+
+import salt.ext.six as six
+
+def normalize_id(id,
+                 xccdf_version='1.2',
+                 typeof='profile',
+                 vendor='mirantis'):
+
+    if xccdf_version == '1.2':
+        if not re.match('^xccdf_[^_]+_{}_.+'.format(typeof), id):
+            return 'xccdf_org.{0}.content_{1}_{2}'.format(vendor, typeof, id)
+    return id
+
+def build_tailoring(data, id):
+    xccdf_version = data.get('xccdf_version', '1.2')
+    ns = {None: 'http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/{}'.format(xccdf_version)}
+    tid = normalize_id(id, xccdf_version, typeof='tailoring')
+    pid = normalize_id(data['profile'], xccdf_version, vendor='customer')
+    ext = normalize_id(data['extends'], xccdf_version)
+    tailoring = Element('Tailoring', nsmap=ns, id=tid)
+    tailoring.append(Element('benchmark', {'href': ext}))
+
+    now = datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
+    version = SubElement(tailoring, 'version', time=now).text = '1'
+
+    profile = SubElement(tailoring, 'Profile', id=pid, extends=ext)
+
+    title = SubElement(profile, 'title').text = \
+        'Extends {}'.format(ext)
+
+    for key, value in six.iteritems(data.get('values', {})):
+        idref = normalize_id(key, xccdf_version, typeof='value')
+        elem = SubElement(profile, 'set-value', idref=idref)
+        elem.text = str(value)
+    return tostring(tailoring, pretty_print=True)
+
+def run(cmd, cwd=None):
+    # The Popen used here because the __salt__['cmd.run'] returns only stdout
+    proc = Popen(shlex.split(cmd), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    (stdout, stderr) = proc.communicate()
+    return stdout, stderr, proc.returncode