Pastable version of Generic Lists of Different Types

<pre class='prettyprint' language='cs'>public IList&lt;IStatus&gt; RepsonseHandler(string responseText)
{
	IList&lt;IStatus&gt; Output = null;
	bool multipleStatus = responseText.Contains(&quot;statuses type=\&quot;array\&quot;&quot;);
	XElement xmlElement = XElement.Load(new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(responseText)));

if(!multipleStatus)
	{
		IStatus status = Status.ParseStatusXML(responseText);
		status.User = User.ParseUserXml(xmlElement.Element(&quot;user&quot;).ToString());
		
		if(status != null)
		{
			Output = new List&lt;IStatus&gt;();
			Output.Add(status);
		}
	}
	else
	{
		Output = new List&lt;IStatus&gt;();
		//Query for count of statuses to make sure we have some
		var query = from c in xmlElement.Descendants(&quot;status&quot;)
					select c;

if (query.Count() &gt; 0)
		{
			Output = new List&lt;IStatus&gt;();

foreach (var status in query)
			{
				IStatus currentStatus = Status.ParseStatusXML(status.ToString());
				currentStatus.User = User.ParseUserXml(status.Element(&quot;user&quot;).ToString());
				Output.Add(currentStatus);
			}
		}
	}

return Output;
}

//TODO: Figure out a better way to handle this
public IList&lt;IUser&gt; RepsonseHandler(string responseText, string DoesNothing)
{
	IList&lt;IUser&gt; Output = null;
	bool multipleUsers = responseText.Contains(&quot;users type=\&quot;array\&quot;&quot;);
	XElement xmlElement = XElement.Load(new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(responseText)));

if (!multipleUsers)
	{
		IUser user = User.ParseUserXml(responseText);
		user.Status = Status.ParseStatusXML(xmlElement.Element(&quot;status&quot;).ToString());

if (user != null)
		{
			Output = new List&lt;IUser&gt;();
			Output.Add(user);
		}
	}
	else
	{
		Output = new List&lt;IUser&gt;();
		//Query for count of statuses to make sure we have some
		var query = from c in xmlElement.Descendants(&quot;user&quot;)
					select c;

if (query.Count() &gt; 0)
		{
			Output = new List&lt;IUser&gt;();

foreach (var user in query)
			{
				IUser currentUser = User.ParseUserXml(user.ToString());
				currentUser.Status = Status.ParseStatusXML(user.Element(&quot;status&quot;).ToString());
				Output.Add(currentUser);
			}
		}
	}

return Output;
}</pre>
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