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Your xacro file only defines a macro, it never instantiates it.

So xacro evaluates your file, and since no macro is ever called, it is empty.

This is also hinted at in the tutorial you got this from (here):

By wrapping the new composite structure itself in a macro, it can be instantiated in much the same way as the original M-10iA macro.

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