Retain count of Array not visible in UITableView methods?

I am having the following issue: in my application I fill an NSMutableArray with some data I read from the internet in XML format. In the same class I want to fill a UITableView with the data of that array. In the whole class - even in viewDidUnload I can ask for the retain count and it is even greater than 1 plus I can count the number of entities in the array (being greater than zero).

In the both methods 开发者_运维问答giving back the number of rows in the table and the table cells the retain count is 0 and the count of items is 0 too.

I'll post some code as soon as I'm at home - but maybe someone out there already has an idea?

Thank you!

I guess I cam from I did not have a TableViewController added. When I did so it was able to access the Array with ease.