Understanding .aepx files

Question

Hello,
I have seen that some post that dates from a very long time already talked about the encoding of .aepx files. I understood that it was impossible to modify the values of the layers thanks to these files. But also that there was no way to modify a project without opening it with After effect.
Has the situation changed since then? And my question is: why Adobe encode only half of their .aepx file? What is their goal? the paths are readable, the name of the layers are encoded in hexadecimal but the value of each layer is unreadable ... why do it only on some kind of fields?

Mylenium · Answer

Simply forget about it. This is one of those "looks good on paper" things and then the engineer who came up with it in the first place left Adobe out of frustration. It's a hopeless case and will never be fully implemented as human-readable XML or parseable via scheme files and XLTs. If you realyl want editable project files, you have to use open Sesame or other such tools that use their own intermediate formats.

https://aescripts.com/pt_opensesame/

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