What is the preferred Internet media type of a RESTful POST request?

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Is there a preferred/recommended Internet Media Type for RESTful POST requests?

For example, if I want to add a new user, should I send the data as a URL encoded string like:

name=Foo&otherData=Bar

or does REST recommend I send the data as whatever format the response is going to be sent as (e.g. JSON/XML)?

<user>
  <name>Foo</name>
  <other-data>Bar</other-data>
</user>

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