How to retrieve and parse large amount of XML data?

In my iPhone app, I am requ开发者_运维百科esting XML data, and I am getting the data correctly and displaying it in a table view. I have one issue, which is that the XML is about 16MB. It's taking too much time, nearly 3-5 minutes, to get the data and to load it in the table view. How can I resolve this?

Can I split off part of the data first and then subsequently parse the rest?

Thanks in advance.

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Read the below article regarding the performance of XML parsers, certainly helpful for you

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