# Project Binaries **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition80\ **Created:** [January 27, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-binaries/31649 "2020-01-27T18:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jonathan.bryant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jonathan.bryant](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jonathan.bryant)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-binaries/31649/1 "2020-01-27T18:05:53Z")
I’m looking for how Ignition serializes project data into binaries. i.e. projects//ignition/event-scripts/data.bin SDK Documentation [here](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition80/8.0.6/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/common/xmlserialization/deserialization/BinaryAttributesMap.html) and [here](http://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition80/8.0.6/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/common/xmlserialization/serialization/BinaryWriter.html) indicate that its a form of XML. But can I read it outside of the scope of Ignition? For context, I’m working on a process that extracts python from Ignition projects to lint it and enforce rules for security within a DevOps process. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/project-binaries/31649/2 "2020-01-27T18:21:10Z")
You won’t be able to deserialize this outside Ignition. It’s a mix of XML with embedded binary serialized objects. At some point in the future we’re going to start converting the storage of things like scripts to plaintext in as many places as we can, but it’s not quite high enough priority to happen yet.