To override the Content-type in your clients, use the HTTP Accept Header, append the .xml suffix or ?format=xml
HTTP + XML
The following are sample HTTP requests and responses.
The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /RestApi/sitefinity/inlineediting/temp/{ItemId} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.asg.com.au
Accept: application/xml
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<EditableItemMessage xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.InlineEditing.Messages">
<Fields xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.InlineEditing">
<d2p1:FieldValueModel>
<d2p1:ComplexValue>
<d2p1:FieldValueModel>
<d2p1:ComplexValue>
<d2p1:FieldValueModel>
<d2p1:ComplexValue>
<d2p1:FieldValueModel i:nil="true" />
</d2p1:ComplexValue>
<d2p1:Name>String</d2p1:Name>
<d2p1:Value />
</d2p1:FieldValueModel>
</d2p1:ComplexValue>
<d2p1:Name>String</d2p1:Name>
<d2p1:Value />
</d2p1:FieldValueModel>
</d2p1:ComplexValue>
<d2p1:Name>String</d2p1:Name>
<d2p1:Value />
</d2p1:FieldValueModel>
</Fields>
<ItemId>String</ItemId>
<ItemType>String</ItemType>
<Provider>String</Provider>
</EditableItemMessage>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: length
<guid xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</guid>