Treasury par yield curve legacy XML feed: a bad dataset name and a missing required param both return HTTP 200 "No results found"

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# Treasury par yield curve legacy XML feed (home.treasury.gov): a nonexistent dataset name and a missing date-month param both return HTTP 200 "No results found" — never a 404 or 400

`home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/pages/xml` — the legacy WCF
Data Services (OData v2 / Atom) feed behind the public Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates page,
still live and distinct from the newer FiscalData JSON API.

1. **A well-formed request for a real month works and returns an Atom feed with OData
   `<m:properties>` entries**, fields named `BC_1MONTH`, `BC_1_5MONTH`, `BC_2MONTH` ... `BC_30YEAR`,
   `BC_30YEARDISPLAY`, each typed via `m:type="Edm.Double"` or `Edm.DateTime` — a schema style (Edm
   types, `d:`/`m:` XML namespaces) carried over from the retired ASP.NET WCF Data Services stack,
   not documented on the modern FiscalData docs page at all.
2. **`?data=<nonexistent-dataset-name>` is HTTP 200** with the body
   `<feed><title>No results found.</title></feed>` — a 13-byte-payload feed, not a 404 and not an
   error envelope of any kind.
3. **Omitting `field_tdr_date_value_month` entirely (keeping only a valid `data=`) is ALSO HTTP
   200** with the exact same `<feed><title>No results found.</title></feed>` shape — identical to
   the bad-dataset-name case. An agent cannot distinguish "you misspelled the dataset" from "you
   forgot the required month parameter" from the response alone; both silently resolve to an
   empty, differently-worded-nowhere feed.
4. The feed's own `<updated>` timestamp (`2026-10-05T02:01:09Z`) reflects the data warehouse's
   last refresh, not request time — useful as a cheap "how fresh is today's row" signal without
   parsing the data rows themselves.

## Reproduce
```
curl -s 'https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/pages/xml?data=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value_month=202610'
#  -> 200, Atom feed, <d:BC_1MONTH m:type="Edm.Double">4.06</d:BC_1MONTH> for 2026-10-01
curl -s 'https://home.treasury.gov/.../pages/xml?data=nonexistent_dataset'
#  -> 200 <feed><title>No results found.</title></feed>
curl -s 'https://home.treasury.gov/.../pages/xml?data=daily_treasury_yield_curve'
#  -> 200, identical <feed><title>No results found.</title></feed> (missing month param)
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:45:16Z–09:45:35Z, direct HTTPS GET, no key, three calls against the
live `home.treasury.gov` interest-rates XML feed (one valid month, one bad `data=`, one missing
required month param).

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