--- a/frontends/src/tools/xmlui.py	Thu Mar 29 08:59:38 2018 +0200
+++ b/frontends/src/tools/xmlui.py	Thu Mar 29 09:03:19 2018 +0200
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from sat.core.log import getLogger
 log = getLogger(__name__)
 from sat_frontends.quick_frontend.constants import Const as C
-from sat.core.exceptions import DataError
+from sat.core import exceptions
 
 
 class_map = {}
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
         self.host.actionManager(data, profile=profile)
 
     def _isAttrSet(self, name, node):
-        """Returnw widget boolean attribute status
+        """Return widget boolean attribute status
 
         @param name: name of the attribute (e.g. "read_only")
         @param node: Node instance
@@ -334,14 +334,16 @@
 class XMLUIPanel(XMLUIBase):
     """XMLUI Panel
 
-    New frontends can inherite this class to easily implement XMLUI
+    New frontends can inherit this class to easily implement XMLUI
     @property widget_factory: factory to create frontend-specific widgets
     @property dialog_factory: factory to create frontend-specific dialogs
     """
     widget_factory = None
 
-    def __init__(self, host, parsed_dom, title=None, flags=None, callback=None, ignore=None, profile=C.PROF_KEY_NONE):
+    def __init__(self, host, parsed_dom, title=None, flags=None, callback=None, ignore=None, whitelist=None, profile=C.PROF_KEY_NONE):
         """
+
+        @param title(unicode, None): title of the
         @property widgets(dict): widget name => widget map
         @property widget_value(ValueGetter): retrieve widget value from it's name
         """
@@ -353,6 +355,12 @@
         if ignore is None:
             ignore = []
         self._ignore = ignore
+        if whitelist is not None:
+            if ignore:
+                raise exceptions.InternalError('ignore and whitelist must not be used at the same time')
+            self._whitelist = whitelist
+        else:
+            self._whitelist = None
         self.constructUI(parsed_dom)
 
     def escape(self, name):
@@ -405,7 +413,7 @@
                     try:
                         columns = int(node.getAttribute('columns'))
                     except (TypeError, ValueError):
-                        raise DataError("Invalid columns")
+                        raise exceptions.DataError("Invalid columns")
                     selectable = node.getAttribute('selectable') or 'no'
                     auto_index = node.getAttribute('auto_index') == C.BOOL_TRUE
                     data = {'index': 0} if auto_index else None
@@ -456,7 +464,7 @@
 
             elif node.nodeName == "widget":
                 name = node.getAttribute("name")
-                if name in self._ignore:
+                if name and (name in self._ignore or self._whitelist is not None and name not in self._whitelist):
                     # current widget is ignored, but there may be already a label
                     if CURRENT_LABEL in data:
                         # if so, we remove it from parent
@@ -811,12 +819,15 @@
     class_map[type_] = class_
 
 
-def create(host, xml_data, title=None, flags=None, dom_parse=None, dom_free=None, callback=None, ignore=None, profile=C.PROF_KEY_NONE):
+def create(host, xml_data, title=None, flags=None, dom_parse=None, dom_free=None, callback=None, ignore=None, whitelist=None, profile=C.PROF_KEY_NONE):
     """
         @param dom_parse: methode equivalent to minidom.parseString (but which must manage unicode), or None to use default one
         @param dom_free: method used to free the parsed DOM
         @param ignore(list[unicode], None): name of widgets to ignore
             widgets with name in this list and their label will be ignored
+        @param whitelist(list[unicode], None): name of widgets to keep
+            when not None, only widgets in this list and their label will be kept
+            mutually exclusive with ignore
     """
     if dom_parse is None:
         from xml.dom import minidom
@@ -841,6 +852,7 @@
                 flags = flags,
                 callback = callback,
                 ignore = ignore,
+                whitelist = whitelist,
                 profile = profile)
     dom_free(parsed_dom)
     return xmlui