We present a tool that addresses a weakness in FieldWorks Language Explorer (SIL FLEx), a software widely used for interlinear morphological glossing of texts (IGT) in the field of language documentation, in particular that of low-resource languages. The weakness springs from FLEx being unable to import IGT texts with glosses kept intact. As a result, it reduces the interoperability with other software solutions used for IGT purposes such as ELAN, EXMARaLDA, or Field Linguist’s Toolbox.

Our tool is a Python application with a simple GUI that reads .flextext XML files and appends their contents to the FieldWorks project database file, another flavor of XML with the .fwdata extension. The tool has been successfully put to use to integrate ca. 450 Tundra and Forest Enets (iso: enh and enf; Samoyedic < Uralic) texts (ca. 140,000 tokens) originally glossed in Toolbox into an existing .fwdata file, and to import 33 Kalmyk texts (iso: xal; Mongolic) with interlinear glossing into a new FLEx project.