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Actually the binary, i.e., type is also rostopic. The pub is just an argument passed to that. So, if you just move the pub to args, it should work:

<node pkg="rostopic" type="rostopic" name="arbitrary_name" args="pub /pkg_topic pkg_executable_file/message" output="screen"/>

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