Issue parsing xml due to possible namespace?

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Hey all, I am fairly new to XML documents and managed to get a weather xml parsed using openweathermaps api. However, now I am trying to parse a different kind of xml that contains a namespace, I think. Code and XML below.


XML Returned from URL

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8' standalone = 'yes'?>

<!--
This atom/xml feed is an index to active advisories, watches and warnings
issued by the National Weather Service. This index file is not the complete
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) alert message. To obtain the complete CAP
alert, please follow the links for each entry in this index. Also note the
CAP message uses a style sheet to convey the information in a human readable
format. Please view the source of the CAP message to see the complete data
set. Not all information in the CAP message is contained in this index of
active alerts.
-->

<feed
xmlns = 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
xmlns:cap = 'urnasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1'
xmlns:ha = 'http://www.alerting.net/namespace/index_1.0'
>
<!-- TZN = <> -->
<!-- TZO = <> -->
<!-- http-date = Sat, 01 Jan 2019 18:55:06 GMT -->
<id>https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=XXXXXX&amp;y=0</id>
<generator>NWS CAP Server</generator>
<updated>2019-01-26T18:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov</name>
</author>
<title>Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Morrison (XXXXXX) Minnesota Issued by the National Weather Service</title>
<link href="https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=XXXXXX&amp;y=0"/>

<entry>
<id>https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=XXXXXX&amp;y=0</id>
<updated>2019-01-26T18:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov</name>
</author>
<title>There are no active watches, warnings or advisories</title>
<link href="https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=XXXXXX&amp;y=0"/>
</entry>
</feed>



Code Attempt

Public Sub noaa()
Dim useragent As String = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.17 Safari/537.11"
Dim NOAArequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(My.Settings.noaalink)
NOAArequest.UserAgent = useragent
Dim NOAAresponse As System.Net.HttpWebResponse = NOAArequest.GetResponse()
If NOAAresponse.StatusCode = System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK Then
Dim NOAAstream As System.IO.Stream = NOAAresponse.GetResponseStream()
Dim NOAAreader As New System.IO.StreamReader(NOAAstream)
Dim NOAAcontents As String = NOAAreader.ReadToEnd()
Dim NOAAdocument As New System.Xml.XmlDocument()
NOAAdocument.LoadXml(NOAAcontents)

Dim NOAAIFpath As String = "/feed/entry/title"
Dim NOAAIFnode As XmlNode = NOAAdocument.SelectSingleNode(NOAAIFpath)
Dim NOAAIF As String = NOAAIFnode.InnerText

MsgBox(NOAAIF)

End If
End Sub


I am trying to return the first /feed/entry/title innertext. When I run this code however I get this error System.NullReferenceException: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' This is what leads me to believe it has something to do with namespace. How do I use a namespace and what is the namespace providing??

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