urdf beginner error

Question

In the first tutorial, for 'creating a urdf file'. On part 2 on creating the tree structure. I saved the xml as advised. Then 'rosmake urdf_parser' it compiles without any errors. Then after when i run the 'rosrun urdf_parser check_urdf my_urdf.xml' line.

the following error occurs :

Could not find the 'robot' element in the xml file

ERROR: Model Parsing the xml failed

If anyone has any ideas for what i could do, i would very grateful.

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Originally posted by Patrick on ROS Answers with karma: 40 on 2012-02-02

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Answer 1

Seems like your XML-file causes an error... is it the same one as in the tutorial?

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Originally posted by michikarg with karma: 2108 on 2012-02-02

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Answer 2

Thank you both for your help, ive updated my ubuntu and using a different text editor and the error does not appear.

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Originally posted by Patrick with karma: 40 on 2012-02-06

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Answer 3

Hi,

I had a similar problem like yours. I just gave the whole path of the file instead of just the file name and it worked fine.

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Originally posted by Prashant with karma: 31 on 2012-06-25

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Original comments

Comment by karen0603 on 2014-03-12:
thanks, it works