Well, that article looks like it's probably a good one... but really it's about learning how to parse XML files, whereas it sounds to me like your goal is not to learn to parse XML files, it's just to learn how to get your data into a table view. If that is true, then it would make sense to go with a plist or SQLite data source rather than XML.
The XML parsing just adds unnecessary complexity... it would be kind of like using a CSV file for your data source when you're only ever going to have the one, static CSV file. You could do it if you wanted to, but why?
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