XML vs. JSON Serialization in Server Side Code - Snippet 2

SPRestCall-Xml.cs

XNamespace a = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
XNamespace d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
XNamespace m = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata";
XElement root = XElement.Parse(responseString);

List<Task> tasks = new List<Task>();
foreach (XElement entryElement in root.Elements(a + "entry"))
{
  Task task = new Task();
  task.Id = entryElement.Descendants(m + "properties").Descendants(d + "Id").First().Value;
  task.Title = entryElement.Descendants(m + "properties").Descendants(d + "Title").First().Value;
  task.Status = entryElement.Descendants(m + "properties").Descendants(d + "Status").First().Value;
  task.Priority = entryElement.Descendants(m + "properties").Descendants(d + "Priority").First().Value;
  try { task.AssignedTo = entryElement.Descendants(a + "entry").Descendants(d + "Name").First().Value; }
  catch { }
  tasks.Add(task);
}