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If you are using Fuerte, you should try the command

rosrun urdf_parser check_urdf my_urdf.xml

Apparently much of the urdf functionality is moved into the urdfdom package in Groovy. See the note on this page. If you are using Groovy, perhaps you are missing the ros-groovy-urdfdom package.

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