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I have found the problem (and the solution).

joint_state_publisher requires not the name of the file, but the actual text. So it was trying to parse the text 01-myfirst.urdf as xml file.

So I now set the robot_description parameter using

rosparam set robot_description --textfile=01-myfirst.urdf

And now it workts.

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