wp-includes/embed.php:770Hooks into the REST API output to print XML instead of JSON.
$servedbool$resultWP_HTTP_Response$requestWP_REST_Request$serverWP_REST_Servertruefunction _oembed_rest_pre_serve_request( $served, $result, $request, $server ) { $params = $request->get_params(); if ( '/oembed/1.0/embed' !== $request->get_route() || 'GET' !== $request->get_method() ) { return $served; } if ( ! isset( $params['format'] ) || 'xml' !== $params['format'] ) { return $served; } // Embed links inside the request. $data = $server->response_to_data( $result, false ); if ( ! class_exists( 'SimpleXMLElement' ) ) { status_header( 501 ); die( get_status_header_desc( 501 ) ); } $result = _oembed_create_xml( $data ); // Bail if there's no XML. if ( ! $result ) { status_header( 501 ); return get_status_header_desc( 501 ); } if ( ! headers_sent() ) { $server->send_header( 'Content-Type', 'text/xml; charset=' . get_option( 'blog_charset' ) ); } echo $result; return true;}Introduced in 4.4.0. One change between 6.7.7 and 7.1.0.
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true to bool.verified against sourcesrc/wp-includes/embed.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.